Crap place to work and My most expensive career mistake. - Senior Control Systems Engineer Dyson Employee Review

1.0
23 Sept 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Medical benefits are very good and insurance.

Cons

They hired me showing a job description of control systems engineer. Then they gave me verifications and motor drives role after i joined company. Very unethical management and the contract of employment is such that you have no say as it mentions job can change any time. Avoid joining this company if you are working in proper process oriented and multinational r&d. In Singapore what they call as RnD is a production support and UK suppprt role. This was my worst and most expensive mistake of career. They hardly care about you. For them all that matters is some crap work is getting done somehow. Management is having very wrong attitude. They hardly understand what is RnD role. They hire at kent ridge location and then all of a sudden you are asked to work from pioneer location. They also have location in Malaysia. The singapore side supports Malaysia. If not covid situation you shall be travelling on weekly basis to Malaysia. Your life will turn to hell by working at such unethical place. People join such company by seeing story of James Dyson. It is only good in video. All rnd work happens only in uk. The singapore and malaysia side have automatic production factories and the culture here is of support roles kind. Very crap.

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