Mercedes-Benz International reviews about "management"

Management style can be haphazard at times

You have to jump through multiple hoops to meet the minimum criteria in order to queue up for next promotion (if any). Yet you cannot just sign up for the programs you have to be nominated, unless there's not enough people enrolling then your manager will ask you to join just to make up the numbers. You can skip the queue if you are from external, have connection or being a specific gender. Many experienced people left in the last 2 years and I have seen a whole team left due to poor management. Internal roles are usually filled by someone already so don't bother applying plus you won't get a reply anyway. When you applied externally at least you would get a generic response. Very insulting yet they always talk about developing and growing our employees. Expats are here on working holiday and their family expenses paid for. First year to learn the market, second year to try doing something and third year planning their next holiday destination. While the company talks about cost saving and lower profit. They are still too proud of the Mercedes brand yet management are already complaining about the issues and quality of their company cars. Always down-playing the threats from competitors, how "we do not compete" with other mainstream brands. But sales results show otherwise. Most of the management are "products" of Mercedes because they have been here for years, and will be with the brand until they retire which is fine. But how can a company improve with the same people and mindsets that have never seen the other side? Brand partner and financial services do not work closely together causing budgets being wasted and campaigns not being effective. This is due to incompetent and arrogant people from both sides. Task from another team will be delegated to you because for some strange reasons they don't know how. They will sell this to you as a learning opportunity. Recognition is based on how much you shoe-shine and how friendly you are with management. To make it worse my Manager did not even bother setting up an exit interview which is actually for their own benefit. This shows you how blinded they are. My time at the company has been cut short as I can no longer tolerate what I have seen here and I can't change them anyway. I felt that the more I put in the less others will do leading to a zero sum game. Therefore I have decided to move on and that's the best outcome for both parties.

Management is not supportive Every day wfo

- Some managers are bullies and that needs to be checked - a lot of favoritism at the expense of actual people doing the work - There is no standard pay structure, salaries are based on can beg on your behalf - the salary is not commensurate to the work being done - The recruitment process is flawed too many family members in the system. -no clear path of growth, like someone has to leave before one can be promoted

bad management, makes you impossible to do your job absolutely zero care about employees

Salaries Upper management is not good

Executive management and HR need to be cleaned out. 90's work culture mindset and non-degreed (unqualified) individuals in such roles do not possess the necessary skills or knowledge to bring the company to the forefront of the industry or rally the workforce towards a single goal efficiently.

Some bad management decisions during last years

Management does not care about the employees performance. This results in lazy employees being able to keep their positions, while engaged ones get more work without being valued.