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A typical day often begins with dropping planned priorities to respond to the latest urgent issue. Reactive management makes it hard to stay ahead, and inconsistent dashboards/data sources create extra work because information often has to be verified before it can be trusted.

The culture is highly political and competitive. Collaboration exists in pockets, but turnover, reorgs, slow decisions, limited resources, and unclear budgets create constant friction. Compensation is strong, but the environment requires thick skin, independence, and a high tolerance for ambiguity.

You can learn a lot and do meaningful work if you have a strong manager, executive support, or the ability to stay out of the line of fire. Professional development is encouraged in theory, but formal funding and clear career paths are limited.

The hardest parts are reactive leadership and the difficult culture. The best parts are the interesting products and a few genuinely talented, supportive colleagues.

Overall, this is a useful place to earn well and build experience, but not a strong long-term career destination.

I enjoyed my work at Signify in the end-user team tremendously. I was part of a newer venture which developed large, systems-based projects utilizing connected and networked lighting solutions. While our team was primarily remote, the culture in our team of highly experienced system architects was one of inclusivity, camaraderie, and genuine desire for group success. Our team leader, who left a few months before our team was laid off, was exceptional, and particularly effective at empowering growth and excellence. Our projects were large and often, iconic. My work involved all pre-sale activity for highly challenging commercial, industrial, institutional, and municipal projects with numerous opportunities to work with Signify's global teams. Working with the international teams, particularly Eindhoven, was the most enjoyable part of my role.

People inside company always is trying to avoid responsibilities even if responsibility is from its area.
RRHH doesn't pay enough for activities each worker is on charge, you are hired as an engineer but you have to do SC, Quality, Process and Project management of any issue assigned to you without compensation.
Management is always lost and do not take actions on bad and clearly risk situations, leveraging everything to Design/Sustaining departments and not modifying what is bad (root cause analysis is awful).
Managers only see for its goals and do not give compensations for its employees, you feel unprotected or alone when trying to ask for a compensation (even with proofs).
Work environment is good, people is kind and serviceable (when responsibility will not go for them).
Career path can be managed by ourselves.

Philips was a great company to work for. They were flexible, allowed advancement and work from home opportunities, had decent benefits, encouraged employee development, empowered employees, and encouraged innovation. My experiences with my direct managers were always positive. All things considered, it was a great place to work for many years. 

Unfortunately, over the last couple of years, they have been working to reduce overhead. The periodic layoffs have hurt morale and the increased workload has taken a toll on the work/life balance for those who remain. I genuinely hope they can return to profitable times and begin hiring again because I would return to this company if given the opportunity. They have great products and great people.

Signify's Cooper Lighting is a large organization with a small company feel and atmosphere that provides its employees ample opportunity to grow. It really depends on the employee's willingness to learn, adapt and get involved. The company operates with a greater purpose while balancing priorities among customers, people, and innovation. The leaders are determined to make sure that its people are taken care of with quarterly employees surveys (a bit too often), and weekly webcasts on operations. Over 80% of mid-level managers are genuinely great to work with. If you are just looking for a good paycheck, look elsewhere please.

I've learned a lot at Signify as far as mapping for EDI and the SAP/PRO PI environments.  My typical day involves on boarding of new customers, review documents in error, investigating changes that are requested by customers to their existing EDI documents.  Working with the development teams to complete mapping changes that are required.  The hardest part of the job, I would say, would be the time difference.  Working in the US and the developers are over in the Netherlands.  Limited time of working together in one day.  The most enjoyable part of the job is the team that I work with and the fact that every day brings new things to learn and new challenges to take on.

Philips Lighting used to be a great place to work, but it's quickly succumbing to the pressures of becoming less and less relevant, and it's making this be felt on their employees. Management is safe and they do what they want, but the people who actually do all the work are constantly under the gun to work faster, harder or be terminated, even if their position have nothing to do with sales. They hire from the outside, and don't give many chances for people to be promoted from within, and when they do, it's not an open and honest process.

We are unionized, which is a pain because people here abuse it for their own personal gain, with no regard as to how that may affect others.

People here will spy on you and if they don't like how you do something they will definitely tell on you. It is annoying and childish. 

Management is completely clueless to these things.

If you work in assembly you get special treatment and praise and these people live for it.  Anywhere else and you are screwed over.

If they don't like you, they will do everything they can within their own rules to get rid of you.

CEO of the company and other high level executives can't keep their word and are always trying to obscure the truth. The overall culture has deteriorated and it's becoming more of a cost savings company rather than investing for sales. 

The overall work/life balance isn't there and they focus on prioritizing outside of North America. 

Multiple people tell me new manager mismanages peoples money. ( I personally have waited a month and a half for my FIRST check) 
Work is also limited and repetitive but managers always seem to have “too much work”. So they’ll constantly leave you thinking you’re going to work OT but never actually confirm until the day of which is not good for time management. 
You get 15/30/15 breaks which are never really enough to eat any or decompress. 
Overall you should probably save yourself the hassle.

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