Loved it before I didn't - Anonymous employee ZEISS Group Employee Review

3.0
14 Nov 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Unparalleled equipment quality; German engineering (what more can you say?); generally speaking, co-workers were committed people of tremendous integrity and intellect. Money was reasonable once you got into middle management.

Cons

Upper management took the focus from being out with customers to sitting at home office filling out endless CRM system requirements. Much more time spent doing "busy work" than being out with customers, prospecting, and creating value or finding opportunities to sell. Corporate culture was fun and engaging for a while, but it turned sour in just a matter of a few years. We used to refer to the president as the "Seagull CEO" because he was loud, obnoxious, pissed everybody off whenever he came around, stole your food, and then crapped on you as he left to go do the same to someone else.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

There is no ability to effect change; processes are so manual to keep people employed that should be let go, and the company is unwilling to listen to ideas of change. Also, there is no actual product quality, their so called Quality department does not deal with product quality at all, thus systems leaving the factory untested as a whole system or software releases being fully vetted for functionality. Their "Quality department" is only a CYA department to protect them from FDA audits, which quite frankly, could be called a Complaint Conversion Department. What is the point, other than titles, to call themselves Quality when nothing actually is fixed on the products and they are uninterested in end customer user experience or improving the actual product quality and sustainability.

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