Electrolux reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(1,288 total reviews)
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Yannick Fierling

100% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Electrolux has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,288 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Electrolux employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufatura industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Apr 25, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Genuine people who work hard. Opportunities for training and certifications are available and supported. Recognition for hard work (at least in marketing) and a rewards program. Program that allows you and family members to test new products. Restructuring was going on so it seems like they are trying to build and create better teams, but they also have some US resources reporting to people in other countries, so unclear of some of the logic behind it.

Cons

I will echo some of the other reviews from the past year or so. Little focus on onboarding so you feel confused and disconnected from the start. Very big brother with the hybrid policy. They are routinely checking badge scans which has created a toxic and stressful environment. If there are life events that arise and you are not able to meet the 60% in office requirement, you are at risk for being fired, regardless of the type of worker that you are and the value you that you bring to your team. When someone is let go due to this policy, this also leaves remaining team members short staffed and overworked. They value their policies of their people and it shows. Along those lines, people are doing 2-3 jobs in one. It is a known issue yet people accept it, laugh it off and expect everyone to juggle all of the responsibilities. Meanwhile, other BAs outside of North America have allocated multiple resources to do the work of one person in the US. There are also unclear roles and responsibilities, partly due to a poor onboarding process. Leadership has requests that they throw at teams and expect them to accommodate and execute in the way that they want, rather than letting the teams determine the best approach. It is often a HiPPO (Highest Paid Person's Opinion or the "loudest screamer") mentality where priorities are dependent on who is submitting the request rather than business value. In office there is "nomad" seating that requires you to book a desk each day. You may or may not sit by your team or anyone you know, which completely defeats the hybrid, in office collaboration that they want. The most alarming part is that leadership and the organization doesn't listen, hear or see any of these very real issues. They think the changes they implement are genuinely fixing and making things better but they are so far out of touch with the day to day and reality, they are blind to a lot of things that the employees face.

1.0
Apr 22, 2023
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits on staff purchases of Electrolux products, especially big ticket items for which friends & family qualify. Also company keeps investing into training their staff, especially with external courses.

Cons

Toxic work environment at times. Some of the leaders rule through exacting fear and intimidation. Super political with rampant favoritism where leaders only concern themselves with looking good rather than getting the work done. If you like to keep on preparing ever similar pointless PowerPoints rather than actually working on growing the business, then this is a place for you. Beware of all their diversity messaging, white male European expats living in their own bubble rule here…

2.0
Apr 5, 2023

Proceed with Caution

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Hybrid model (but they are extremely strict and NOT flexible when it comes to life events...so hybrid is a selling point but read the fine print) - Good Pay - You can find some great people - The office is nice

Cons

- Lack of sincerity as a whole- the flexibility that they sell you through their hybrid model seems great, but it can create a toxic environment. There is no flexibility for life events and you are left counting how many days you went in that month on your own (theres no tracker but someone knows) because you are at risk of being fired for not coming in enough days -Lack of Culture or Community: There is very little effort to make you feel like you belong to a team and that your work is more than just "busy" work. This role wasn't just a technical role but a role that was also building on itself to grow more mature, but it felt like the work I did was not really that important a week or so later...priorities shift a LOT and no one is on the same page. Also- you "rent" your desk for the day so you sit by someone new a lot and that seems okay but you do not get the comfortability of knowing the people around you. Makes it feel like you are just a number, just a desk, and not playing into a community feel. - Lack of leaders: Electrolux is a room full of managers and no leaders. (Maybe a handful but not a lot of them). There is no managerial leadership training, and a lot of the managers are hired off the streets due to turnover, so they do not know the company culture or how electrolux wants teams to be led. - Little to No Training: Training and Development was HUGE when I started at Electrolux, and I was promised a lot of things. Nothing came to fruition, and when I brought this up to my manager (who was also new to the company) I was told in a very dismissive way: "I am figuring it out on my own too". I left that 1:1 extremely discouraged. - Lack of Buy In from Upper Management: My team had the unique opportunity to build and develop an area of the business, but with the lack of resources and technologies to do the job well, we were left treading water but still feeling like we had to prove ourselves. We really needed upper management to get align with the work we were doing to build a robust demand plan. Every meeting felt like we were moving 2 steps backwards and half a step forward. - When you do leave voluntarily, they do not care about your thoughts or concerns. I have been waiting for 6 months for someone to give me an exit interview (which I have requested multiple times). This is why I am finally posting on here. - Extremely unclear growth opportunities: because management is as new as their subordinates, there is no clear path to success...this was a big red flag for me.

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