HARMAN reviews

3.8

77% would recommend to a friend

(5,947 total reviews)

Christian Sobottka

82% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

HARMAN has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,947 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HARMAN employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Sep 11, 2014

Avoid at all costs

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This is a review of the automotive group and does not include the professional audio and other divisions. If you are in any of the centre of competencies, the quality of work in development and test tends to be very high. They work with world class customers like BMW and Daimler, Jaguar Land Rover and provide some good work packages.Technically it can be challenging and rewarding, but hold on, read the cons underneath. Dont just jump and apply there.

Cons

This place is nothing but wipro. All service industry minded people who are very cost conscious, but not conscious of anything else, like coding, testing or even common sense. The place is very very politically charged and the senior management is entirely from wipro, including HR and even finance! This makes the culture very toxic and extremely unproductive. These guys are good at making power point presentations and thats about it. No real work gets done at Harman Bangalore automotive division. The 10% of the organisation that is non wipro genuinely contributes or tries to contribute, but the majority always side lines them. In fact if you work, someone will find fault with you. In fact if you are not ex-wipro, you will find it very very difficult to survive there. Period.

1.0
Jun 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay, decent benefits, good work experience

Cons

Poor management, constant arguing amongst managers and employees, managers will give you good reviews and then tell the opposite to management, VP of this location is the most unprofessional person I have ever met. Constant foul language and hand slamming on tables during meetings

3.0
Apr 4, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Relaxed Environment - Product company - Possible opportunities to work on a variety of products - Competitive salaries - Above average 401k - Friendly people

Cons

- Seem to be restructuring every few years (layoffs) - Leadership and lower level management either do not communicate well or obfuscate true state of business - Interdepartmental communication is lacking - Poor planning (or communications of plans) - Not a lot of "A player" talent; recent restructuring caused a real brain drain in what top tier talent the company did have - Network is very slow and outages are not uncommon - Engineering/Development computers are average at best - No way to access email or company servers away from the office unless you use Citrix, which is extremely slow itself or due to the above mentioned network performance. VPN access used to be available, but was removed - Mobile native app mail access requires company spyware to be installed on your personal device - Outsourced software development groups appear to have very little budget or are unwilling to use budget on engineering tools, software, and server infrastructure to aid development

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