HARMAN reviews

1. Quality is not controlled and/or communicated properly. 2. Software and hardware do not work collaboratively. 3. When there is a problem, people there throw it over to wall to the next person. 4. New technology/ideas are not really welcome or appreciation 5. No management appreciation or recognition. 6. No bonus offered to employees even though the CEO is one of the highest paid 7. No appreciation for products. The CEO only shows his face when absolutely necessary, even when there is a product/contract rolling out that is well over $1 billion in revenue...come on be a leader! 8. No employee value, even when you step outside of your job in a daily basis that is still not enough for any type of recognition. At least with the boss I had. 9. Not staying ahead of the customer and competition, Harman is 2 to 3 steps behind. Just playing catch up when a product is in the quoting phases. 10. One of the most stressful jobs you will most likely have. Along with pay that is not comparable to other companies in the market.

Upper management - especially the uppermost management. The CEO's knee jerk reaction to a profits warning in late 2012 resulted in the majority of R&D talent of the organisation being stripped away to "save cost" and artificially increase profits. European Engineers and technicians with decades of experience were turfed out, with the master-plan of replacing them with inexperienced Chinese engineers This will enable a temporary increase in dividends for the shareholders over the next couple of years - this apparent turnaround is, of course, being spun as the genius of the CEO - NOT SO! My prediction is that the CEO will be surreptitiously selling off his shares over the next 18 months or so - capitalizing on the artificial inflation of the share price, before the removal of the organizations life blood starts to tell.