This company is the biggest in the industrial PC market because of the cheer amount of vertical markets in which they act, not because of product quality or innovation. In other words, they are jack of all trades, master of none.
An official company policy is to allow fierce internal competition which in theory is great but in reality is terrible.
Another official policy from HR is that they will do whatever is cheapest for the company regardless of the circumstances. A few ex-colleagues sued the company.
All decisions are centralized and must be approved by HQ. Due to time difference with the RBUs this means a lot of late night or early morning conference calls.
Often for support the staff in HQ decide to just ignore emails or send incomplete or irrelevant responses to buy themselves time.
Salary is average or below average so they prefer to hire mainly
Asians who will tolerate these low salaries. Asians are promoted more frequently than their counterparts and just in general the company culture prefers Asians.
High turn over mainly at the RBUs but also in HQ.
HQ believes they understand all markets worldwide instead of trusting local experts. This results in, for example, money spent on marketing materials and events that offer no return.
Negligible marketing funds. Even for business travel they will often arrange it to be as short and cheap as possible. Of course, top management is exempt from this.
