Once great company has turned into a horrible company -- Stay away if you value your career! - Anonymous employee LEDVANCE Employee Review

1.0
27 June 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This company is a split off from Osram, a German company which owned the Sylvania brand name. Osram Sylvania as it was called used to be a great company to work for with a progressive, adept leadership.

Cons

Last year the company called Ledvance split away from Osram. Ledvance is owned by a private investor in China. The US region was given complete autonomy under a leadership of male neanderthals from the 1950's who came back from retirement to run it. It then became possibly the worst place to work for with constant layoffs, forced resignations, and taking back of flex plans -- you must work 8 hours a day in difficult to get to office in Wilmington if you are a headquarters person. Also no raises last year and no compensation for all the extra work that was done on top of the regular work to split Ledvance from Osram. Now they are saying if someone in your department is terminated you must take up their job in addition to your own. In the US this is a regimented slave-driving company with a backward looking almost bizarre leadership team. Stay away if you value your career.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

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Cons

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