Dyson reviews

2.9

30% would recommend to a friend

(3,050 total reviews)

Hanno Kirner

26% approve of CEO

20% positive business outlook

Dyson has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,050 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Dyson 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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3K reviews
1.0
Jan 28, 2021
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Pros

Dyson looks great on a resume.

Cons

By far the worst job experience I have ever had, management is only worried about keeping James happy and then not rocking the boat. The company lacks any definable culture and what little culture there is consists of toxic people who are more focused on infighting than anything else. Decisions are made at a glacial pace and even when they are made take forever to implement.

1.0
Sep 20, 2015

midnight ride

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Always skeptical of entirely negative glassdoor reviews, I am quite happy to start with the pros: Dyson products are brilliant, brand reputation makes the company a good resume builder, and there are a handful of truly talented individuals working for this vacuum juggernaut. Sadly, the aforementioned list of pros is both terribly short and but a prelude to a laundry list of cons.

Cons

Let me be your personal Paul Revere. The British are not coming; they are here. Take a position at Dyson, but know you are signing up to fight a never-ending, non-revolutionary war. Con 1: Spin It I have worked for big brands in the past, but never has perception reigned so supremely over actual productivity and results. To succeed at Dyson, you must PR yourself, pillage coworker's wins and claim them as your own, and stay well beyond the standard workday simply for the sake of appearance. These characteristics are bred and lauded by senior leadership. Thus it is no real surprise that there is a cutthroat, toxic environment brewing - one where employees are forced to climb over one another like a horde of demons freshly unleashed from the bowels of the underworld. Con 2: Culture, Smulture Get ready to get bopped over the head with a slew of haughty phrases and lofty promises. At Dyson, employees are pitched on an open office environment that promotes communication, unlimited advancement opportunity and flex hours. Be warned: those are but traps. And crucially, it gets worse. The walls in the US office ooze cocksure quotes that are passed off as bits of the Dyson culture. They might have you believing you just beamed aboard the innovative express. Trust me, you have not. While the whiz kid engineers in the UK might be whipping up a sexy knew cordless vacuum - excuse me, "machine" - that will outlive planet earth, know that the US office actually crushes creative thinking. Oh the sad, sad hypocrisy. Con 3: Dyson's "Visa" Bill If you have read other reviews of Dyson on glassdoor, you have undoubtedly noticed one pattern that has literally repeated itself for years: ex-pats are given nearly every single leadership role in the US. This is likely do to the extreme success that the blokes and birds have had over the past few years. Utilizing their extremely limited knowledge of the American sales/marketing environment, they have managed to exponentially shrink US market share. (fancy claps) Con 4: Revolving Door The real Dyson culture promotes competition and lacks teamwork, transparency and overall tact, so it should come as no surprise that turnover is high. How high? So high - the type of turnover that has a quicksand effect on day-to-day business while simultaneously eating away at employee moral.

1.0
Sep 3, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility (for some) and the constantly changing faces from all of the turnover

Cons

Pay is mediocre Accenture has completely trashed this company and is slowly bringing it to the ground Turnover is at an all time high (at least 50%) since Accenture has taken over All of the good Execs have left the company in the last year Jim Rowan doesn’t know what he’s doing They have outsourced IT, finance, accounts payable, and SOP and it’s just been a crap storm of problem after problem that no one wants to deal with and the higher ups fail to address. No one can do their job effectively because our technology is garbage and our laptops are horrendous. You spend more than a quarter of your day fixing an issue with your technology with some person oversees, which then turns into a month or more of back and forth emails only to not have the issue resolved and then having to wait until you are in the office to have the 1 person at the IT walk up bar bombarded with people and issues! That’s really smart Andy Gamble and Jim Rowan! You should both get the Being Dyson award! I guess as long as you’re saving $$$ while making $$$$$$$! Our people scores have been at an all time low for numerous years now and only getting worse. There’s no where to sit in the office because there aren’t enough stations for people, so you end up sitting in the cafeteria. I could go on and on.. run forest run! Go find a company that cares about its employees.

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