Belden reviews

Where do I start? The environment is toxic and you are expected to work long hours and weekends only to be criticized and unappreciated.

The environment is very toxic - which comes from the top: Execs do not help employees, only judge them. Their whole Strategic Deployment Process focuses only on the "bad", perpetually in counter-measure mode, never celebrating the "good". And the use of frequent, random lay-offs are standard practice in their fear & intimidation playbook. Sales & Marketing organizations are largely dysfunctional: Significant employee turnover coupled with extremely short-term obsession. As a salesperson, you'll spend countless hours poring over spreadsheets and discussing your funnel repeatedly to various different audiences (most of them in Finance). Marketing is a mere sideshow - understaffed, underfunded, with no plan to bring it to this century. This is not a good place to work - period. If you do wish to pursue a commercial role with them, do two things first: (1) Reach out to former employees who can share their experiences with you; and (2) Ask to see employee turnover data. [They might parade their employee engagement survey scores as a defense, but know this: While the responses are supposed to be "anonymous", the survey requires responders to enter so much information about them (Business Unit, Job function, location) that one can easily match survey to employee. It's a running joke amongst the employees - who admittedly skew their answers to protect themselves]