Bose reviews

3.7

59% would recommend to a friend

(1,813 total reviews)
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77% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Bose has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,813 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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2K reviews
1.0
Apr 15, 2021

If you want to feel undervalued work here

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Absolutely none. I guess health insurance is great?

Cons

They do not care about employees at all. There are layoffs every other year. The company continues to reduce resources then shift the work to other people until they burn out and have no other choice but to quit. They completely disregard employee and customer feedback on product development thus producing products that no one asks for then act surprised when they don’t perform well. During the start of the pandemic not only did they not reimburse employees whatsoever for working from home they were allowed to take home their working equipment or expense working equipment. Other billion dollar companies have done this for their employees. In addition, no one received a bonus or raise last year due to the pandemic. There really is no incentive to work here other than the name which is slowly becoming irrelevant.

2.0
Jul 5, 2020

Nice people but very poorly run

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great brand, great products most of the time

Cons

The environment is toxic, negative and almost everyone is unhappy. CEOs try but can’t seem to figure out how to run a company. Employees are moved from job to job where they have no experience so the business always fails. If they hire smart people from the outside they don’t want to listen to the feedback and eventually those people either leave out of frustration or are fired. Add to that nonstop layoffs to the list and it’s a perfect storm. I’m afraid for the future of Bose.

1.0
May 23, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Great products, engineering research and development work.

Cons

Management is clueless and keep reorganizing to get more pay and new roles while layoff long-term employees through age discrimination. They have systematic approach to force voluntary retirement or demotion and bad reviews to eventually layoff older employees. This had started in 2014 with VERO (Voluntary early retirements) and Domino promotion of younger employees and demotion of elder employees through reorganizations ....

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