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
2.0
Aug 15, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits. Work hours reasonable.

Cons

Worked as an engineer at Harman for over 12 years. Went from designing great products in the 90's and early 2000's to overseeing the design of crap product by employees in low-wage countries. The current management ('08 to present) is doing everything & everything to show short term success & profitability at the expense of competency and quality. It won't be long until the formerly prestigious brands mean nothing to people (frankly the cats already out of the bag as the general consuming public is very informed these days). If you want to work as an underpaid engineer only to manage incompetent engineers overseas this jobs for you. Workplace attitude was terrible. Mostly because they laid off hundreds of employees and left a skeleton crew and acted like nothing was happening.

2.0
May 13, 2018

Program management

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Expanding at a neck breaking speed. Many open jobs. Nice employee discounts for both Harman products and; separately, Samsung lines

Cons

Sweatshop! The automotive business in Michigan is booming especially for Harman. I’ve never seen it before in any other company where 1/2 of the staff on so many Fridays at 6:30pm still working. Too many new employees whom are green and need to be trained. Outsourcing to Mexico and India is normally OK but when you have a new customer and a new team with very limited knowledge about the product that they’re designing and selling is a recipe for trouble. Add to that the economical squeeze when Samsung overpaid when they bought Harman. Improper decisions were made. Harman makes speakers internally but had to buy speakers from another supplier because management did not want to expand the manufacturing plant to accommodate for the added business. Needless to say; the customer had to be informed and was extremely unhappy. Trouble. I left for a totally different reason. The workload didn’t match the compensation.

1.0
May 4, 2018

Horrible place to work

Recommend
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Pros

There are no Pros of working at this company unser such horrible people.

Cons

Don't ever take up an offer from Harman connected services, it's the worst place to work. Esp if you are working under a particular GOC director (no name). People don't repect you for your work but only for politics. No Hikes at all. You can't take leaves even for medical emergencies as it impacts their billing which is only thing they are concerned about. Even if you are admitted the first ques will be have you informed / taken permission from client manager. No options for growth. They will emphasize on trainings and being more technically groomed but if you want to take any training/certification they will not be supportive and don't approve it. Horrible people management . Salary is reduced day by day in terms of cutting client incentive , travel incentive rather then getting a hike. Even if you perform excellently you will nt even get your varaiable pay saying that they are doing cost cutting and BU hasn't performed that well overall.

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