Bose reviews

3.7

54% would recommend to a friend

(1,818 total reviews)
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75% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Bose has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,818 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bose employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Dec 4, 2010

Changed from Great Place

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Dr. Bose is a visionary in building brand based on great products. Great product that makes me proud when people mentioning Bose, wow...Another part of vision of Dr. Bose was that hiring talented people, make working environment more friendly to new ideas and risk taking for excellence, but all that are changing...

Cons

The culture has changed, some for better, some for worse. It is more processed focused, only that the balance of creativity and process seems not there yet, no risk taking for excellence anymore; Product offerings are narrowly focused, thus not many growth opportunities; career advancement is really in question, depends on who you are connected for the most part, seems believe that external is better than internal talents; politics are big, playing accounting tricks in some areas ; very poor human skills of some lower and middle managers, mostly hired recent 3-5 years, kissed up and kicked down, lowered moral...

2.0
May 19, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The brand and the product are great, so you can be proud to say you work there. For an agency, the pay is quite competitive.

Cons

Conservative & boring (work & a lot of the people too, but hard to say, as there is no time to find out). The long ingrained corporate mind set combined with the new "agency" approach/ processes combines all the bad aspects of working for a big corporation with all of the bad aspects at an ad agency (the hours, expectations, deadlines).

2.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Bose has a great group of people, especially the research and engineering groups. As a whole most of the employees just want to do the right thing for the company and the customers. The products are fantastic, and the ability to participate in providing a great experience for customers both in the store, and with the product at home is great.

Cons

Senior management often provides conflicting direction and leaves it to the worker bee to resolve the conflict. Many of the senior management have been in the company 10+years and have developed domains of control within the company. This often results in awkward situations and creates a distrustful environment.

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