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      Robert Bosch

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      4.1

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (9,970 total reviews)
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      Stefan Hartung

      79% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Robert Bosch has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 9,970 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Robert Bosch 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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      10K reviews
      1.0
      Jun 3, 2020

      Good to start, get expensive training, no career progression

      Software developer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Good to start the career, learn as much as possible in the short time possible. Get some expensive training paid for you. Look at it as a school.

      Cons

      - As an engineer you need to justify to the boss why you need internet and laptop. - Use old tools to develop software. Internet access under proxy, which has limitations, very hard to get to repo's. - You have core period of time, which you need to be in office (9-12;14-16) - You can be in home office (2x week), but you don’t get meal allowance, and on site you also don’t get meal allowance, they make you go to the canteen (you have no choice) - They make you sign papers for projects your never worked for (to get more funds from government) - They make you take holidays, full week of 15August and last week of the year (you have no choice) - Career progression does not exist, they promise but nothing happens (you will get a raise of 1%/2%, if you are lucky) - Projects are a chaos, no one decides anything and you play the ping pong (ask person 1, ask person n) - Lots of meetings with political behaviour, week after week discussing the same topics. - Impediments will be there for 1+ year, no one solves them and management doesn’t handle it. - Eventually you do something, which will go to trash 2 months after. - They advertise using latest tech and methods but in the end you fall in the corporate cycle. - Management calls you nerd (search: 'ribas crominhos') - Management implemented this dictatorship and I don’t see how you can avoid it. Thank god I left!

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      Robert Bosch Response
      6y
      Dear former employee, Thank you for taking the time to leave a review here on Glassdoor. It is very important for us to hear your experience and have your feedback, so that we can improve and do a reflection for a better employee experience at Bosch. Because we care about career progression, we are constantly having brainstorming sessions with our leaders and teams, working hard to meet their expectations. There are some upcoming changes that will be implemented in order to promote our associates development and your testimony is valid for us. We sincerely appreciate your feedback and wish you the best. Best regards
      3.0
      Dec 6, 2019

      Meh

      Da/automated driving software engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      -Ok benefits for SE Michigan. Everything is a little less than an OEM (salary, bonus - if you get one, raises, vacation, 401k match, hsa, coverages). Can't compete with west coast salaries w/ stock offerings....so you get what you pay for. -Culture is youngish and decent - ppl eat together at lunch a lot and go for walks together. Culture is really their only retention leverage, as it's free and everything else is less than market. -A lot of training, which is nice. -Building is somewhat modern, and cafeteria food is pretty good. -Very international vibe....working with joem's can be....culturally 'interesting'. -They claim long-term job stability is their strength vs. pay. We'll see though, as we're entering the pot-luck instead of holiday party/hiring freeze/no-bonus stage. -Before budgets got tight, foreign work assignments were pretty common place. -I recommend this for someone out of school looking for experience that wants an ok-ish work/life balance.

      Cons

      -Biggest issue is that the NA branch works mostly on NA customer projects...more on the integration side of things vs. original algo content. The bulk of the core algorithm development work is done in Germany, and the NA team basically tweaks this so it will integrate with the specific customer projects (ie a lot of wrapper work). This means a lot of ppl don't possess in-depth, true background knowledge of the logic (bc core work is done in Germany where the experts are), and a lot of the content related questions get fwd'd to the core team in germany. -Many NA oem's and mobility companies are doing their own in-house sw - so bosch is having to focus more on actuators and integration (I would recommend working for an oem that is pursuing in-house algo development...a lot better resources). -If you're use to a fast cycle of code/flash/test in vehicle - forget it. New proving ground rules prevent most of the teams from actual vehicle testing bc of a new cost structure yikes. -Churn rate seems to be at a medium level - most leaving to oem's or west coast companies (not the other way around). A fair amount of empty desks. Seems like its mostly cheap young kids straight out of school and a few sr level's that no longer have career ambitions (ie most mid-level's have moved on or are bosch lifers). -Some managers can be crazy micro-manager style (like ironically brutal levels), and make you sign attendance sheets @ every meeting and spend significant amount of meeting time tracking your vacay on multiple redundant spreadsheets. -At the end of the day, you are a supplier and at the mercy of customers demands, so life/work balance depends on this. -A majority of the application algo layer is done in Acet model based coding (often written in German)....that no one in industry uses.....so if you want to specialize in latin. -SW release and testing process by the customer teams seems like a hot mess, and everyone uses different processes (if there is one), and tools. -A lot of weird little things: overly high security for no reason (required laptop cable locks, having to lock your screen when you get up, multiple security doors), pay is monthly, everything is annoyingly cost centric: time sheet tracking vs. generic headcounts for projects, vacation is earned and tracked in a weird ocd way ugh. -Winter test is in MN instead of the UP, so it makes that pain even more of a pain.

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      Robert Bosch Response
      6y
      Dear employee, Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us! Our 130+ years of history taught us cultural diversity is a key factor in the development of potential for the long-term corporate success of Bosch. We’re glad to hear it is appreciated and will keep driving it forward in the company. At the same time, as with any large company, adapting to a new mindset is definitely a challenge! That’s one of the reasons your feedback is so important to us and we embrace the diversity of our associates. Should you have additional suggestions, please don’t hesitate to email us at feedback@us.bosch.com. Thanks for your review! Kind regards
      1.0
      Nov 22, 2019

      Manegemet is a joke

      Customer service agent
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Ok to start as first steps in an office evironment, but dont waste more your time after 1 year two max Ok to alternate with another job or studies

      Cons

      No rights, micromanagemt, no possibilty to grow unless you are friend or a brown nose of the boss

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