Gentherm Reviews

-No accountability -a lot of favourites (you don't have to be good at your job so long as you're buddy buddy with someone higher up) -Gentherm doesn't care about their employees -Everyone looks miserable at their desk -Company does nothing to boost morale not even a team building exercise -no training. You are thrown into the fire. -compensation is low.

Like most of the recent reviewers, my view is that the new CEO, hired in late 2017 from Harman to cut costs, has transformed Gentherm from one of the best companies in the area to work for to one of the worst. When I started, the company was diversifying and expanding, as the CEO and top executives saw the peril of being reliant on one industry, especially one as cyclical as automotive. The new hire training program was one of the best I'd ever experienced, and the team was supportive and helpful. The company was losing money in the short term due to its long-term investments, which apparently spooked Wall Street after a few such quarters. Since Phil Eyler started, there have been the highly demoralizing constant threats of layoffs and pay and benefit cuts. Within 3 months of his arrival, there was a round of layoffs that cut 10% of the headquarters (engineering, program management, sales, etc.), mostly those with experience (and therefore the highest pay), but not management, of course. Top level executives not on board with the new direction quit within a year and were replaced by yes-men from Eyler's former team at Harman. When COVID started, we all took a 20% "pay deferral" due to the plant shutdowns, which we were willing to do since it was to avoid layoffs. In the fall of 2020, the financials were sound enough to restore full salaries and back pay... And a month later, surprise layoffs! More followed in the spring of 2021. Again, it was the experienced employees that got the axe. Given these changes, culture has shifted from collaborative to competitive, with those best at sucking up and covering for themselves remaining, while those with years of experience get to train their newly graduated replacements and then be shown the door. The numbers look great in the short term, but this isn't the way to foster innovation (one of the company's taglines). Revenue is increasing thanks to price cuts leading to new business, but this trend will reverse once the products are no longer competitive. Meanwhile, much ink is spilled to the press about the company's commitment to diversity and inclusion, while really it's just for show - there's no diversity (not least of which is diversity of opinions) at the executive level. Foster a nurturing and supportive culture, and the diversity will follow organically without the dog and pony shows. The actual women on our team mostly thought the Gentherm "Women's Network" was a joke. I can't recommend anyone work here until the CEO and his entire cabinet are replaced. I shudder to think what the culture where he came from must have been to have made him this way.