Robert Bosch reviews

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

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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1.0
Aug 14, 2016

untrustworthy company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- stable employment conditions - acceptable salaries though not astonishing - family friendly work time models

Cons

- arrogant and/or incompetent top management, very hierarchical top down decision making mostly from German HQ without consulting experts or any reasonable explanations to employees - talking a lot about values (such as trust, reliability), but not respecting them except towards large customers in order to secure future profits - talking a lot about being innovative and new business fields, but not really competitive with top high-tec companies neither In terms of average staff competencies nor research spending on disruptive future technologies - many "successful innovations" are technology-wise more or less just copies of what others did years ago with an added smartphone interface - the few top researchers are repelled by unstable innovation conditions, completely unreasonable requests and expectations (e.g. regarding required development times and Bosch's alleged "superiority" over competitors) and micro-management by clueless executives - recruiting employees for special tasks on the premise of career advantages and letting them down after they served their purpose

5.0
Jun 4, 2016
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company with amazing engineers and scientists. Good company for work-life balance Good company to retire comfortably Cutting edge technology especially for electronics and control system software

Cons

Middle management (head of departments, team leaders) from the bygone era are holding the company back. Middle management is always trying to please senior managers than getting the job done. Some managers are stuck in their middle manager roles for over 10 years and are extremely insecure of high achieving team members. Very hierarchical. The only way get over these negative issues is to join a team with a good leader. If you don't be ready to waste few years of your life doing nothing.

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