Never consider Volvo Construction Equipment - Anonymous employee Volvo Group Employee Review

1. Management is too slow to react on things. No stability for workers. Layoffs are common but only for workers and lower level staff. 2. More focus on politics and maintaining friendships than keeping talent. 3. Almost all the product are in loss. Every machine they build losses ~50% money since 3 years. Management just started to react now to make it profitable by laying off good workers. 4. Too many incompetent managers who has no idea about technology, business needs. It is always one way communication where manager is asking to do, improve process/product to workers but does not provide any mentoring, support and guide employees towards success. No accountability for missing targets, schedule. It looks like managers have lot of book knowledge but lacking in real world knowledge. 5. Management is slave to people in Sweden. Sweden runs a tight ship and unfortunately other locations are getting affected. They implement systems which works for them in Sweden but fails in Americas. Unfortunately Americas gets stuck with these processes which creates waste and adds frustrations. 6. HR is incompetent and does not know how to keep talented employees.