Product Validation Engineer - Senior Validation Engineer Cummins Employee Review

3.0
Feb 29, 2016
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Pros

1. True commitment to diversity in a lot of practical, sensible ways. 2. I have had 7 managers in 5 years, and each of them was phenomenal. 3. Relatively easy to change roles, in fact, it's probably encouraged too much. 4. Reasonable opportunity for raises, though it's mostly politics (who you know). 5. Overall great flexibility that leads to excellent work/life balance (though only 10 days vacation for new hires).

Cons

1. EXTREMELY sensitive to stockholders which leads to horrific changes of direction that absolutely wreak havoc on morale, quality, innovation, and motivation of work force. 2. Management does not stick to plans. 3. Accountability is virtually non-existent, which on one level leads to low stress, yet ultimately hurts everyone as risk takers are viewed as toxic and those that take the safe road and yet never say "No" generally do just fine. 4. They generally hire too many when times are good and subsequently have to lay people off every ~2-3 years. 5. They do not value experience and while they treat people well, employees are still just numbers. For example, someone with 5 years experience in something specific would generally be viewed the same as a college hire with respect to work assignments.

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

You get paid for doing OT on weekends at the plant I work at now If you are in a shift that has less staffing you might earn more money on weekends as you will not have anyone to rotate with or less people to rotate with I am happy to have a manager who understands I have a lot of work pressure

Cons

If you are in a shift that has less staffing you will have a lot of work to do. For me the con is lots of work pressure in the shift I work. I think I do the work of atleast 2 people and sometimes even more. First shift will have people to rotate on weekends. Unfortunately 2nd shift doesn't have people to rotate with. We end up working every weekend but have same number of vacation days. People in 2nd can get there vacation days used up before other shifts. But still I would say its a good company considering I work in a manufacturing facility.

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