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      Kontron Reviews

      3.5

      44% would recommend to a friend

      (114 total reviews)
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      Rolf Schwirz

      50% approve of CEO

      28% positive business outlook

      Kontron has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 114 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kontron employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      114 reviews
      3.0
      18 Oct 2015

      Pay low salaries expecting high results

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Company has great product and customer base, employees are great and can form real friendships outside the cube. Great place to get experience and then move out.

      Cons

      With all the acquisitions that Kontron has made, they've brought a lot of people from the outside that have their own ways and place them in management positions and that conflicts with the old culture of Kontron. German HQ are exerting to much control over the company and not letting the US division run themselves. They also like to hire people with HS diplomas for positions that require College education in order to pay them a lower salary but still expect the same output as someone with a college education.

      3.0
      30 Mar 2016

      2016

      Senior project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Quality people and reasonably nice location

      Cons

      Poor people management - emphasis is on profit to the exclusion of personnel

      2.0
      24 Mar 2016

      Interesting work, but...

      Manufacturing engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      If you enjoy the challenges of working in a manufacturing environment with a fast-paced development-to-market cycle, or if you have an interest in the various applications for embedded systems, Kontron can be an interesting place to work.

      Cons

      Kontron is a a German-based multinational company, and the US accounts for only a small part of their production resources and market. So it can feel at times like Kontron US is little more than an afterthought. This also has an effect on management style. Important decisions, such as initiating layoffs or closing plants, are made in what feels like an information vacuum. In my own case, I was laid off without ever knowing what business conditions necessitated a reduction-in-force. One Friday afternoon, myself and several others (about 10% of manufacturing support staff) were simply shown the door. Since this decision was imposed from above, outside of the US management, I never held it against the people I worked for directly - just the faceless corporate types that made the decision.

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