Philips reviews

The top tier leaderships' reputed lack of appetite for Americans continues to rear its ugly head. Strategy is managed by emotion and its not pretty. A large scale change almost for the sake of change is an annual event, and has created a toxic, fearful culture in the USA disrupting both the employee and customer experience. Leadership in Amsterdam does not demonstrate interest or care in the American workforce except for the lovely option availed by leveraging our employment "At Will" laws as a means to taking the sting out of a lack of revenue. Perpetual, ongoing reductions in staff have created a "keep your head down" mentality - a killer to innovation, to speaking up to point out mistakes. Career Paths are a thing of the past, and are based on 'who you know' (who is in power at that time), not what you know (credentials, competencies, experience). This is not a great time to sign on to Philips OR is it like buying when the price is low.... go in at its worst, and cross your fingers it will ramp?

Leadership down to some middle management is disconnected with the reality of individual business, division and department needs. They talk past employees and reality in platitudes as if the organization works on words over planning and action. Philips has a general attitude that everything can be done the same way and all systems, business processes and businesses can be configured and run the same way regardless if you are selling pencils or luxury automobiles. They constantly challenge a business and market’s desire to manage their own processes causing extended projects, poor solutions, inefficient operations and a disenfranchised workforce. Project management has no concept of the time, scope, money triangle. They introduce their own significant scope creep and without extending time, adding resources or adding development cycles to support it, and still expect a perfect project landing. Add an off-shored IT model which is severely disconnected from the business, and manages to KPIs versus business needs, and you add another layer which is discounted from the business. Lastly, Sales and Marketing are rarely aligned. Marketing will develop and run with fledging ideas before developing an executable process with their Sales partners leaving room for confusion, finger pointing and frustration.