employer cover photo
employer logo
employer logo

Vestas Wind Systems

Engaged Employer

Vestas Wind Systems reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,429 total reviews)

Henrik Andersen

74% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Vestas Wind Systems has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,429 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 Energie, Bergbau, Versorgungswirtschaft industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

2K reviews
4.0
Sep 10, 2015

importance of employee appreciation

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Co-workers, management strives to create a place where employees feel valued. Lot of orders coming in that indicates strong future

Cons

work life balance, not enough resources to get things done.mandatory overtime is hard on employees who have physically challenging work

1.0
Sep 9, 2015

Unfair recruitment process in Global sourcing,Quality & PEX

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Learning ...Only learning nothing than that ....

Cons

Bureaucratic ,Your job is not secure .You have to plan your financials well ahead .Because you may not know when you will be asked to leave .Most of the role's offered are for short time stint they will offer show all fancy things like travel etc ...Once they have squeezed the juice out of you it is bye bye ...They do not show even mercy ...I was an ex-employee laid off i applied for many openings after being laid and they kept rejecting me because that i know the principles in which the company is functioning .""PLEASE KEEP AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY""WHICH treats employees like use and throw bottles ....

3.0
Sep 8, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great environment and personal connections made. You can be trained in almost any aspect of technical field. Industry leading safety culture with a focus on being three steps ahead of regulatory agencies. Very good pay when you add company rental vehicle, hotel accommodations, travel incentive, per diem, insurance, and PTO into the equation. It gets under your skin, before long you wonder how you could possibly work anywhere else, and how you would ever rejoin society after working around such insane (but awesome) people all the time.

Cons

Some people you just aren't going to get along with. Poor communication and lack of accountability on the part of management (likely do to poor training). Little to no upward mobility. Once they find out you are good at something you'll do it forever. Vestas Employees "Fall UP". That is to say that most of the people I have seen promoted past me into higher positions have been given those positions as a result of incidents or poor choices. One example is a technician who was given the role of lead technician and safety coordinator after having a handful of incidents in which he or his crew members could have been seriously injured or killed. The idea was that he was failing because of apathy. To correct his apathy they gave him more responsibility in an effort to turn him into a better employee. This is one of several people I've met that have been promoted instead of fired. Pay is still lower per hour than many other manufacturers. Mobile construction is not for the faint of heart, nor is it for the thin skinned. You have to be able to take a lot of scht and be able to dish it out without making anything personal. NO standard of pay for labor across positions, and huge ranges within individual tech fields. New technicians make multiple dollars more an hour than knowledgeable experienced technicians. When you ask if you can at least get a raise to level yourself with the new hires you are told that in order to get a raise you have to get percentage differentials through training and other processes. Which new hires can also do, which means they are still making more money for having less experience. This creates a culture of turnover within the company. You either quit and work somewhere else to make more money, or you stick it out and make less than the moron you're training, which makes you care less and less.

Viewing 2194 - 2196 of 2,429 Reviews

Glassdoor has 3,044 Vestas Wind Systems reviews submitted anonymously by Vestas Wind Systems employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Vestas Wind Systems is right for you.