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Vestas Wind Systems

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Vestas Wind Systems reviews

3.6

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,436 total reviews)

Henrik Andersen

74% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Vestas Wind Systems has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,436 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Vestas Wind Systems employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
3.0
Dec 4, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are great and pay is good

Cons

Job security... yearly changes lay-offs due to the company structuring for the future. This seems to have everyone on edge about their jobs and makes them less open to doing things better. Not the most professional atmosphere.

4.0
Sep 9, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flat organization. If you value autonomy and want additional scope, it's yours for the taking. A great place to learn and grow, but you (absolutely) must be a self-starter if you want to succeed, especially in the revenue-generating business units (Turbine Sales, Service Sales, or Project Development). Some truly great employees. Morale can fluctuate a lot by department, but the people are amazing!

Cons

Danish parent applies rules to regional BUs which often leaves local leadership little control. Comp is below market across all business units. Global Bonus is touted as offsetting lower base pay but is rarely paid out in full, if at all. Stock is only awarded to VP and above. With bonuses rarely getting paid and executive management touting the importance of shareholder value, it doesn't send a great message. Most business units are under cost-cutting measures, if you're a cost not revenue center, good luck getting annual raises that keep up with inflation.

1.0
Jun 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay, Benefits, and skilled colleagues [ worker bees]

Cons

No management direction. Terrible culture that promotes racist and sexist ways of thinking, filling positions based off of quotas and not experience. Would rather place an employee on a "PIP" with goals that were not even attainable then to just lay the person off..... providing absolutely no severance. Extremely long hours as employees are not empowered to make even common sense decisions. I still have nightmares of having to create business cases to get approval for "just do it" level decisions.

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