Working for Molex appeared to be a great fit when I was hired about 12 months ago. The employee benefits and compensation were competitive. After only a few months in the role, it was evident that training and mentoring new hires was lacking greatly. The culture at Molex is that everything is a high priority and whatever is asked has to be answered or completed immediately with no regard to workload, projects or timing. Molex has WAY too many middle and senior management (Manager, Director, Sr Director, Gen Manager, VP all in one reporting structure).
After 6 months in the role, I shared with my manager (director level person with 20+ years at Molex) that my workload was too much, but nothing was changed. There was never a time where SMART goals for me in this role were set. It was never discussed. Just "go figure it out". No onboarding/training. No mentoring. Instead, my manager (director level) held 1 hour sync ups where he offered to help. But my direct manager wasn't actually helping me. The manager did not approach it from the stance to actually help by training, supporting, encouraging or re-balancing my workload. What was actually happening is that this manager was just documenting where I was struggling to be able to fire me. There is no HR contact to support the employee. I never saw anyone from HR, never received any email from HR and no one in an office of a few thousand people ever showed me where HR was. In fact, in the building in Lisle, I didn't know where anything was except the cafeteria. No one ever gave me a tour around the building.
The work-life balance does not exist at Molex. The workday never ended. I would work a full day in the office (not remote) and then have calls from 7-11pm along with reviewing/replying to emails and TEAMS messages. The expectation was to be available 24-7 with no time for personal life and family. The peers in my group all had at least 1 less product to manage and had revenue targets that were 50% less than my products. But even they complained about the way everything was presented as urgent and high priority. One co-worker was applying to other job openings within the company to get away from the toxic culture of the group/division. Another co-worker revealed they were having anxiety attacks and had to take personal days because they were so stressed out.
Molex makes it seem like a great place to work when applying; competitive compensation, PTO, health insurance, etc. But even with setting an expectation of extra work hours in the evening, it was not even close to reality. Employees are so overworked that people eat lunch at their desks and barely have personal conversations, even as simple as "how was your weekend?"
Extremely disappointed in the inaccurate expectations compared to the job description. Extremely disappointed for the lack of support for new hires. Extremely disappointed in the culture and treatment of employees.
