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Siemens overall is a great place to work.  The compensation and benefits are great.  The work is stressful and can include weekend work and on call.  The work environment can consist of very professional individuals as well as very unprofessional individuals. I would attribute this to the nature of the Cary office in Customer Service being a call center.  If you are familiar with call center environments than this is pretty typical.  The work space is top notch, technology is good.  The onboarding needs a lot of work.  Siemens is diverse and embraces diversity.  The growth opportunities are hard to come by as the positions are so specific and people stay in their roles for a very long time, but there are plenty of internal job postings.  Management is a little harder to review... depends on the manager and the employee.  I had a great experience with my manager, because my manager was hands off and I am a good employee, so no complaints.  The hardest part of the job was the training, once fully up to speed, it is pretty much the same tasks every day.  Most annoying is the team work, you will have 1-4 people who do great work and the rest are not good, but they never get fired and replaced, so workload is unbalanced.

I believe working as a CSE has changed over the years.  Although the training is appreciated, it has been shortened to the point of missing important details.  Their documentation contains just enough information to replace a part...that's it.   I'm assuming this is to protect intellectual property.  The campus in Cary, North Carolina is nice but the equipment CSEs train on may or may not work during your stay.  Ask to see the new training facility in Germany.  

At least in my territory, there was incredibly high turn over in management, from the Regional Sales Manager and up.  After my rather rushed and incomplete training, I was placed on-call only to work on various modalities that I didn't have any experience or training with.   I decided to move onto another field of work as I wasnt comfortable working on medical equipment that I didn't have any experience, training, or documentation.  Several times, I was working on equipment while there were patients waiting or laying on the table.  Some but not all customers were openly hostile since I had to work slowly to gain experience.  In addition to everything above, my territory was throughout the state.  Some days I could handle the stress and other days I couldn't.  Although seldom, some of my work days could last 16+ hours so physical fatigue could become an issue.  I'm happy to have worked there but relieved to have left.

Your success depends entirely on the department you work in and on who you report to daily. Some teams and leadership are great, while others focus on typical corporate optics and gossip instead of results. Most of my time was spent putting out fires, balancing responsibility without authority, and spending more time protecting my image through documentation rather than focusing on the task at hand. Everything was reactive, and when things went south, those in leadership were quick to assign blame to prior employees' "shortcomings" rather than take responsibility. I take pride in what I do, but the support for the level of decision-making ability someone in my role would need to succeed just was not there, which became incredibly draining very quickly.

HR is basically non-existent and incredibly short-staffed, leaving other leaders to pick up the responsibility. Recruiting is painfully slow for some roles, so if you are interviewing, be prepared for that.

If you are looking for a technical or manufacturing role, this is honestly a great place to find good pay and reasonable benefits.

If you are pursuing a salaried/professional or leadership-level role, I strongly advise you to tread carefully and ask the tough questions before you are hired. If you are stuck with poor leadership, you likely will be too busy playing the corporate politics game to do your job effectively. Some may thrive in this environment, but I do not. 

The production plant in Glasgow, DE is struggling with declines in their legacy clinical chemistry business.  If you are offered a contract job, there is most likely no future for you, and if you are young and seeking a career, it is best to avoid this campus.  If you decide to stay, expect -0- pay annual increase.  They need contracts to help manage their declining legacy business.  As a contract, you are paid only for the hours you work.  When the plant is closed for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or mandatory shut-down days, you will not be paid.  It is possible that as a contract, you can wait for years and then bid on a permanent position, but that is not typical.  Most contracts simply leave and move on.  The management typically has both poor technical and people skills.  There are several managers who seem to do nothing, other managers are indifferent and just surviving, not a center of excellence.  This organization is so unenlightened that they don't even care that contracts are not being paid for Christmas Day!

Processing Customer complaints for investigation and potential safety issues/.

Learned so far about assay development, software development and testing. Reliability growth testing and Failure mode analysis, software requirements definition, and assay and instrument related complaint handling and regulatory agency reporting.

Management trains you to do you job well and then is trusting you to do you work with a minimal of supervision. This empowers employees individually.

The hardest part of the job is when dealing with new employees who were hired to do something in another department that interacts with yours which were hired based on who they know and not their experience in dealing with the duties of that particular positions. Despite training received still are not doing the job well enough to satisfy my and other employees' needs to have work from then first.

The most enjoyable part is the friendships built and how each team I have been on helps each other with work in order to accomplish the final goal of completing the work.

Siemens was formed by the combination of three healthcare companies, Dade Behring, DPS and Bayer.  The culture at all three sites varied and I worked at the Dade Behring site, but spent considerable time at the former DPC site in north Jersey.  Over time, the culture at the north Jersey site became more toxic and I think that permeated to the Dade Behring site.  The company at the time of its formation was in the top three healthcare companies in the world, that ranking has continued to slip.  My last two years working for Siemens were not pleasant, I was given performance reviews that I felt didn't reflect on the work I was achieving, had part of my bonus taken away, and was denied any type of raise for two years.  I also was not given permission to look for other jobs inside the organization by my immediate supervisor.  Despite this treatment, I continued to work and support the people and projects I was assigned to.
In my assessment, Siemens is a good place to gain experience, but not a place to maintain a career.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The culture, the people, the personal training with my manager, she was incredible. Very good company, and I wish that I could work there again.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No stress, it was just the opposite. But, they are very big on promoting excelling and being successful. They take that extremely serious. So, for the time I was there. I took it serious as well.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Extremely positive, everyone is about business. But however, there are moments when they have different events happening at the company. They show much appreciation to the employees. Very positive atmosphere.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Every morning. I will check my emails, just to get a status on what items need to be handled first per project. Take various staff meetings with my senior, and then typically meet with my project peers on various project obligations. Before the day is out, just perform daily tasks, administrative project tasks mostly.

I'll put it this way, you're not going to lose your job if you get one because I've seen people take advantage of the policies and management here to the point that I'm convinced that even a fast food chain wouldn't put up with it. The thing that bothers me the most is the blatant and painfully obvious favoritism that goes on. A prime example that I see almost daily is how some coworkers are calling out for days, and sometimes weeks at a time with little to no PTO and still come back at the end of it all and have a job somehow. And what makes it even worse is that once a year come raise time those same employees will be given the same bonus and compensation as everyone else, maybe plus or minus a few cents. And that's even if the raise even comes, going on almost year 3 without one. It's a good place to work if you know someone higher up that can get you past the annoyingly obvious bias. 

Siemens is a great place to gain experience in the medical device field. I worked in a manufacturing lab and it did feel like the potential to grow beyond the job was limited.  You could move around to different areas but the promotion/growth structure is very regimented. 

I felt that they do a good job of letting new hires get hands-on experience to be able to quickly learn. However, once you are able to do the job, it can feel like the amount you learn or feel challenged levels off. The experience you gain is very in-demand and will help you get other jobs if you like the manufacturing environment. 

The pay was not great but I found the benefits to be very good. 

I loved the people I worked with. It felt like there was a strong team dynamic within the group i worked and everybody was very collaborative and helpful. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
great line of work, you get into the chemistry, radiation safety is a generic good skill to adopt and its accrediting bodies, no traffic during transit. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No room to learn more, harassment is not taken seriously, some ageism is present, attempts to demotivate and defame happen to "proper preforming" persons.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
dynamic - you find a range of people from gossipers to gas lighters to laid back individuals who want their day to go by. Some may be more inviting or welcoming than others in a nutshell.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
fast paced to prepare medication for appointment times, paper work and qualifications are dropped onto you and forced to stay unexpectedly.

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