Xylem reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,310 total reviews)

Matthew Pine

73% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Xylem has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,310 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Xylem 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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1K reviews
3.0
Aug 28, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly people throughout the company. There are some very sharp engineers in R&D. Relaxed work environment, laid-back most of the time. The marketing team seems in touch with the customer and competent.

Cons

There seems to be no coordination within the management team. Management reacts to problems and events, rather than planning and executing a plan. IT support is dismal, worst of anywhere I've worked. Engineers need multiple LDAP accounts, AD account, travel & expense system account, project tracking system account, etc. I think I have 10-15 accounts, each with their own password policy and password reset frequency. The phone system routinely goes down. The wifi is flaky many days. The work environment is poor. The facility is over-crowded. It's not uncommon to see pallets of equipment sitting in the lobby. The Agile scrum teams do stand-ups in the lobby. For those unfortunate enough to be sitting near the lobby, it's very noisy. There's a shortage of conference rooms, resulting in many people having small impromptu meetings in the cube farm. The bathrooms are routinely filthy, on par with the public restrooms on I-95. Regarding the work itself, they are not leveraging my skills. I'm not doing the job that was advertised through the interviewing process. While hired as an engineer, my day to day tasks require me to operate as Sales Engineer, Marketing Engineer, Software Engineer, Support Engineer, Program Manager, Operations, and more. There's a total lack of mission and focus under my manager. We just react to whatever the problem of the day/week may be and go fill that roll. I never know what to expect when walking in the door each morning. Remote working is highly discouraged. While some people at Sensus do this, some managers are not on-board with remote working. Don't plan to work from home if you need to wait for a delivery. About the only excuse for working from home is when you're sick. I will say that some managers are probably more flexible than my manager. So be sure to discuss this prior to accepting an offer.

1.0
Aug 25, 2017

An awful place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice working environment, friendly coworkers

Cons

Micro management, with endless worthless meetings.

2.0
Aug 21, 2017

Too many Chiefs

Recommend
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Pros

The location is ideal with no delays in commute.

Cons

Hostile and negative environment . Unrealistic expectations and you are never fully compensated for the hours you truly work.

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