good place to start career but lack of long term job security - Anonymous employee Cummins Employee Review

3.0
1 Dec 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

People are well to get along with and in general helpful though most of time they literally help little or too late to provide literally any helpful help. Corporate code and standards are well established especially to those not related to your technical field. Very flexible working hours especially you are more senior as long as you would take your own risk of losing visibility which counts toward the so called corporate calibration status. You will have decent working environment especially for office engineers and access to lots of office resources. You will learn and be equipped with strong business mindsets including but not limited to 6S statistical analysis, problem solving skills, design review experience and corporate recommended vpi process.

Cons

Cummins has a notorious calibration process which sometimes is referred to as ranking. The calibration process is really based upon your salary grade and you will be compared to those of your colleagues that have similar salary grade. The principle is there has to be someone filled in the last 20% because, this is what I heard, this would make this calibration curve look more like normal distribution. You are asked to provide feedback for your stakeholders and also request feedback about you from them, which requires very good interpersonal savvy and ability to keep good relationship and at least maintain some technical level communication with them. You will have to keep such things smooth in order to stay away from the last 20%. Since there are always people falling into that group to ensure normal distribution curve (probably inspired by 6S), no one would feel secure about their jobs. Especially true for those who didn't get promoted or finish 6S for a long time. One will come to understand Cummins is such a company whenever annual sales go up, you will see a lot of new faces and whenever it goes down, you will lose a lot of familiar faces. The recent year leadership in Cummins has strengthen this philosophy pf business management. It is a typical hire and fire company that is good at cutting its talent work force to offset any market shrinkage. I understand some tough business decisions have to be made sometimes but just don't understand why it will let go those who is just hired for a few months here, people I know who just bought house and had new baby, people who are traveling abroad to do thing for cummins and people who contributed to the core technologies of cummins products. Sadly the broken management is paid at a price of cutting its professional work force and refilling its work force whenever things start to look up.

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Most the people are okay. BUT this place is TOXIC AF They do not give you a 30min lunch, they take 30min out of your check, but they give you 30min away from your machine, so if you have to walk 2 to 3 min to and from your zone you barely get 25min for lunch, One of the new people was clocking out for 30 min for their lunch and was actually told if you clock out for 30 min you have taken a longer lunch than you are allowed.

Cons

Upper Management doesn't care or doesn't listen to employees, There is nothing on earth that will make people want to be there for 13days in a row, I used to hear at Cummins you have to follow the standard work, now its do whatever you have to to get your numbers. You DO NOT Provide enough time off, not when you are running people 13d in a row. you provide enough time off for a 40h work week nothing more, Get it into your thick skulls.

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