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Good vision, poor execution - Analyst Vestas Wind Systems Employee Review

2.0
May 4, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Overall, good colleagues. Great to be a part of the renewable energy industry. Ok pay/benefits, nothing crazy. Management is somewhat candid about its reasons for doing things, as an example, the recent layoffs late 2010.

Cons

Still Denmark-centric. Occasional disparaging remarks about non-European countries. Title inflation. Everyone's a manager/director/VP. As a result, lot of captains, no soldiers. Very critical things get done eventually, but it takes a really long time and held up. Then its also rushed. People in their positions are knowledgeable but when the so called alignment took place, a lot of people got promoted into management positions when it really shouldn't have been a management position. As a result, you had people who felt it was beneath them to conduct execution and went about trying to empire build, resulting in overstaffing, overcapacity in many areas. A lot of time spent reporting, distracts from execution. Example, report to your line manager, ultimately up to region President. But with new structure, line managers also report to a functional VP in Denmark, so you have to report up to them. There's no coordination at Denmark so you have a lot of info requests coming from your President, and multiple people in Denmark. There were way too many special projects and way too many excellence centers but a lot of them got axed during 2010 layoffs - feel bad for them but they weren't really adding value so decent move by management, but its still appalling that you had what seemed like hundreds (probably closer to 70+) special projects being pushed from Denmark onto regions for a very long time.

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Cons

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Pros

Vestas has been at the cutting edge of wind turbine technology for quite some time. They are industry leaders at the global level.

Cons

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