Robert Bosch reviews

Bosch SEA Bishan St. 21 Singapore Most of the people in the high position are very commanding and political. Maybe this is a cultural thing but this is what I experienced and I am just stating the fact. I previously worked in Germany. That's why I joined Bosch because I had good impression working with German companies and German as well. But I was wrong. The culture in Singapore (in all nationalities: locals and other nations in it) doesn't mix very well with German culture, at least on my department. I had seen incompetent bosses failing projects and pretending as if those failures aren't big deal at all. They can politically manipulate their bosses' as well and would try hard to cover up things. Despite of the failures, Some are too delusional thinking that everything is under control despite of project budget overruns and out of schedule deadlines. Surprisingly, I heard something from a boss (local) who have personal agendas which are quite opposite with Robert Bosch's principles regarding employee's importance. I heard it and I was in shock. I dont want to elaborate it but I fell that ALL in high position should undertake mandatory trainings as some of them act immaturely. RESIGNATION: 3 months notice period is way too long. This is the longest that I saw from all the companies I worked with. This is the complain of all the employees who are unhappy working with Bosch. They were accepted from job interviews and yet they can not resign from Bosch because most employers are not willing to wait for 3 months nor give the notice pay. I know that HR wants it to be that long because if they lower it to 1 or 2 months, the turn over rate of the employees will be high. Don't believe me? read further below. I had been in lots of companies and most of them need only 1 month notice for resignation. I never had joined a company who needed 2 or more months of resignation notice. Why? because once you filed your resignation, your required job as an employee is to endorse and it SHOULD BE DONE VERY WELL AS EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE. If you have a pending job, you are obliged to endorse it but should have the option to finish it or not depending on how big the pending job is. If you endorsed it to someone who is not capable of handling the job, it is the employer's problem and not the one who is leaving. Besides, having a competitive person leave the company means that there is something wrong and the management should figure it out as soon as possible to prevent further resignations and lower the turn-over rate. Finishing the pending job is optional at this point but may still be carried out depending on the agreement but by right, the focus during this period is the training and enrichment of new people who will takeover on the pending tasks. With this, 1 to 2 months resignation notice is quite understandable..... but 3 months? It's just a common sense to figure it out as I had already given the reason above. :) Although I heard that there are very few people who where able to reduce their resignation notice month period BEFORE signing the contract but I can't confirm this as I heard this only from some employees. You can ask HR but even it this is true, I doubt that they will tell it to you. I would like to stress again that I can't confirm this info and I have no means to confirm this information. I love this company since I started working here, but I see that some person inside it can destroy the reputation of Bosch and I don't want for it to happen. I would love to see the German's takeover and do a change in Bosch Singapore. I am still hoping that there will be a change in the system and the mentalities of the people inside it. Humor aside, I heard from a group of people at the canteen discussing about resignation notice period , that Bosch Singapore should not be "Invented for life", it should be "Stay for life." :D

Compensation is very poor, Promotion and salaries are more driven by normalisation than by performance