Behringer Reviews

Pros

Great opportunity to bring back synths and drum machines from the past with extra's!

Cons

Long working days, I found it difficult to pull myself away from the task at hand.

Advice to Management

You should demand people take breaks more.

Pros

Great pay, good benefits and free bagles

Cons

Challenging work, but I feel that's what draws me too it. I would consider it a plus but it can be hard.

Advice to Management

keep up the good work

Pros

The best part of working at Behringer was leaving.

Cons

Disturbing use of talents. Engineers don't innovate, they reverse engineer as per the instruction of the sociopathic CEO who thinks he is Steve Jobs (he is not). As an engineer, this is not the place you go to innovate and do great things. This is where you go to learn to rip off other companies designs and recreate them using the absolute cheapest parts.

Advice to Management

Sell the company and retire. You are a cancer to the industry.

Pros

I absolutely made some of the best friends ever!!!.. Above and beyond the daily crap, there was always a laugh, locally, only because we were all in the same sinking boat!!!

Cons

Too much control, not enough understanding of business practice's. Counting on your "trusted" people to give you an answer that they have ABSOLUTELY no clue about. The worst is when you are told the truth, you do whatever you have to do to destroy that person's life.... I live by Karma and I know your's is coming...

Advice to Management

Shut the door!!!

Pros

The employees are pretty cool and very hard working. Most are musicians and have a passion for music.

Cons

This place can be classified as a chaotic hell, and the CEO loves the smell of fear and rotting employee corpses. All the negative things that you read on the forums, internet, and on glassdoor are true. It doesn't matter who you are, how amazing you are, or your skill set. You will be set up to fail and become another number. Heed all the warnings and just look for a job elsewhere. Also, the pay is way below average...

Advice to Management

You're all ruining your reputations in the industry....when you become regular gossip and the laughing stock of the music industry, you should realize that you are in deep. Cut your losses and run too......

Pros

Really awesome co-workers. The people who work there are great. For the most part. Watch for spies.

Cons

Uli Behringer is a sociopath, plain and simple. Seriously, you can't imagine how awful it is to work with this nutcase. Rapid turnover. You might have a job and get fired for no reason weeks later. It happens A LOT.

Advice to Management

Uli, go stick your head in a blender you psycho.

Pros

With only a couple exceptions, everyone in the Bothell office was great too work with. PTO and Benefits package were generous.

Cons

Pay was well below average, I made about $15k a year less than the median salary for my position. Location was also terrible--I had to commute out to office-park hell in the middle of nowhere. A lot has been said about the CEO and Senior Management. Most of it is on the mark. It is a company that is perpetually in transition. Most plans and strategies aren't given a fair chance to play out before Senior Management...

Advice to Management

Honestly, Uli... It's time to sell the company. Your vision for the company is so rigid that you will never find people who match up with your ideas unless you're willing to compromise. As long as you keep your iron grip tight, what happened in the Bothell and UK offices will keep repeating over and over again. You say you micro-manage because nobody gets the work done right. Nobody will ever get the work done...

Pros

Most of the people I have worked with are nice and helpful.

Cons

CEO only listens to suggestions from upper management and makes decisions that are impossible to execute then blames the people when something goes wrong.

Advice to Management

Listen to people, learn to value your people, and think before you decide. Learn the business process flow for each department before implementing any process improvement.

Pros

Good products for the price point. Plenty of opportunities for battlefield promotions. Sharpens your firefighting skills.

Cons

Paranoia and distrust are rampant, CEO is also the owner, Chairman, Head of R&D, and ridiculously involved in the day-to-day minutia. You've seen the term "knee-jerk reaction" in about a dozen of these reviews, and that is 100% correct. Those decisions led to customer dissatisfaction and lost good will from dealers and distributors. And those fires had to be fought (constantly) by people who were invariably sacrificed...

Advice to Management

Be accountable for the impact of those knee-jerk and otherwise irrational decisions, and change the process to prevent further damage.

Pros

- Everyone is in the same boat - Decent local team atmosphere

Cons

- Micromanaged at all levels (Culture pushed by C-level execs) - All tasks are monitored at all levels - Managers are questioned regularly about their team member's value-add ("why do we even have this person?") - Unclear corporate direction - Employees forcibly silo'd into roles - Processes create dysfunctional environment - Pay is below average - Stress is extremely high across organization - Minimal communication...

Advice to Management

Change the culture Hire a business oriented CEO Focus on quality of employees, and not quantity