Valeo Embedded Software Engineer reviews

4.1

85% would recommend to a friend

(328 total reviews)
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Christophe Périllat

98% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Embedded Software Engineer employees have rated Valeo with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 328 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Embedded Software Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Valeo is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Embedded Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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328 reviews
3.0
Dec 16, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

1. Salary is relatively decent if you are a fresh grad. 2. Friendly environment to some extent. 3. Again if you are a fresh grad, you will learn a lot at your first months.

Cons

1. Management is really strange. Software Managers are either helpful and supportive, or arrogant and bureaucratic. I have witnessed the latter. My N+2 shocked me with his behavior, and later I've found out that he is one of the worst Software Managers to work with. There is a list by the way that details the names of the arrogant Managers. The list isn't written down though, as far as I know. 2. Site Service, it is a nightmare. At first, you will be seeing everything using the dreamy goggles, and you will "think" that you are being taken care of. A little down the road, you will find out that all they do is sweep the dust under the carpet, metaphorically speaking of course. The High Management has created ghost companies that are "hired" by Valeo Egypt to do the service, whether the cleaning, food, or anything else. The restaurant food quality is bad, the quantities are small and the prices are high considering all of that. The Air Conditioning isn't working properly at some areas, and the Air Circulation itself goes haywire sometimes resulting in a smell like "Sewers" in some floors. 3. Support can be a dream. Since I joined, I needed support concerning my intro to the new team I joined, and it has been a month now since I joined and I still don't know what I am doing and I have received to support whatsoever. There has been no one assigned to me to support me through my work, and that resulted in: a. I waste too much time trying to read a poorly commented code to understand the system. b. I feel less motivated to work day by day since I really don't understand the system I am using. 4. The turn-over rate is high. That is because the management don't really care about their employees. If you wanna leave, just leave and no one will even move a muscle to ask why you are leaving.

2.0
Nov 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good Colleagues - Good package - Good Environment conditions

Cons

- Very bad management - Very bad and outdated tools - documentation and testing company - no challenges and no innovation - bad configuration management and source control - high turn-over rate - tons of excel sheets - projects doesn't follow same standards - bad work/life balance - bureaucratic environment (a lot of mails, approvals, updates) - No space for improvements or upgrade

1.0
Nov 8, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Management always targets saving money to our main offices in France and Germany. Which makes them extremely efficient and profitable.

Cons

Management does not take employees in any of their priorities: 1: salaries (maximum increases every year are not comparable to inflation rate in Egypt). 2: working hours (no defined policy for extra hours, and they push everyone to stay long hours, and even sometimes to sleep over in the facility). 3: seniority handling (younger people with less experience are always put on the lead over older people with more experience and efficiency, whenever they are staying more time in the office). 4: high turn over rates (they always tend to hire more fresh grades every month in suspicious way [20-40 fresh grades every month] than keeping experienced people from leaving, or from better tasks handling, leading roles..etc. long story short: they prefer to hire a fresh for 2-4 years and stop investing in him after, while hiring more fresh grades. Which leads to a very high turn over). 5: bad site services (the management always make virtual small companies for services like cleaning, transportation or travel handling, instead of getting professional suppliers. These companies are managed by people in the top management to make more profit. The result is that they do not focus on managing people and bad services are supplied for employees).

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