Bose reviews

3.7

59% would recommend to a friend

(1,814 total reviews)
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Lila Snyder

77% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Bose has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,814 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
2.0
Sep 15, 2015

Reorganization

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible schedule, employee pricing perks,

Cons

The company use to be very good, but Bain came in and did a major L1 L2 restructuring. The company is working through that painful change. Alot of the managers are still in place, and looks like it will be alot of the same with less people and resources. Really bad morale currently.

2.0
Jun 1, 2015

Peter Principle

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of nice people, lots of challenging work to do. Used to feel like a "family company" just a few years ago - with people of all ages. Employees used to stay 15-20-30 years, so the company was doing something right.

Cons

This used to be a great place to work - even in IT! It has changed in lots of negative ways - especially by promotion of bosses pets into management. These people have no idea how to manage, and their bosses don't either. Unfortunate.

3.0
Mar 27, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good salary; 401K and a pension plan, decent vacation and sick/personal days benefit. Good corporate facilities...

Cons

Bose was formerly driven by engineering. Over the years, it is slowly being controlled by the bean counters. Jobs are moving to Asia and there are periodic layoffs. What was once an agile, responsive company has become mired down in procedures, and a painfully slow, unfriendly corporate wide Product Life cycle Management system. Products take forever to come to market. Engineers wade through procedural standards instead of doing their job. Company is under constant attack from Asian engineered products being sold at a fraction of the price.

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