Slippery Slope - Individual Contributor TE Connectivity Employee Review

3.0
11 Jan 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of employees with long tenure. Strong market leader in the industry. Lots of potential with this company and great employees. Pays really better than average. High expectations with challenging work.

Cons

Recent upper management changes in Greensboro intended to shake things up, only the choices are contrary to the culture change they were trying to implement. A lot of the "left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing" between locations and even corporate office causing wasted efforts. Lots of us versus them between local plants and Winston-Salem office. Long term tenure has created complacency of those employees. Lack of structured training due to economy reduction years ago has created quality issues and a lack of accountability. Newer employees, hired to help, see writing on the wall and stay less than 5 years. They see there is too much of an uphill battle to enforced necessary changes with all the tenured employees that block progress. Goals are in silos for each department and some projects are unrealistic. Workload for some unevenly distributed and some managers lack ability to properly delegate. This has created some of the newer team members to leave due to too much work for 1 person or not enough work. Culture is not defined, therefore confusing newer staff. Hard to find information. Slow to get needed changes or purchases made. Performance reviews/bonus structured poorly - seems more like a popularity contest and not explained well, in fact they don't explain much well Tenured employees just expect that you know inherently where things are, who to talk to and what to do. On-boarding was some of the worst considering the size of the company.. Leadership's inability to lead is clearly causing issues in the production areas, yet iron-fist change will not work.

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Pros

- Good support from leadership - Good benefits - Good activities for interns

Cons

- limited face-to-face collaboration and networking opportunities

1.0
8 May 2026
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Pros

Broadly a good company if you’re in a senior decision making role.

Cons

HR policies are words only. Years go by without ability to take any PTO and carry over not allowed. Friday afternoons, all HR US employees stop working with all others working past normal business hours and into the weekend including late Friday asks to complete an action by Monday 8:00 AM that was known earlier in the week but only communicated to the employee after Friday business hours. Every Friday. Onboarding structure / sink or swim approach, no training. No sense of belonging unless you’ve worked here 20 years plus. No growth or development opportunities unless tapped on the shoulder. Many openings are never published, again tapped on the shoulder approach despite offering to volunteer. Dismissive company culture. Every Voice Counts initiative is code for: if you do share your voice, you are on a list to not consider for promotion or any projects that would give you more visibility across the organization to foster one’s growth.

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