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Vestas Wind Systems

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Vestas Wind Systems reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,423 total reviews)

Henrik Andersen

73% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Vestas Wind Systems has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,423 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).

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2K reviews
2.0
May 4, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

2.0
Mar 24, 2011

too much turnover

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They have wonderful benefits (100% paid medical, dental and vision) and 4 weeks vacation plan. Flexibility of working from home if needed due to time zone issues.

Cons

there has been a lot of turnover in the past 6 months in Denmark and site locations. Strategy is still unclear to employees.

3.0
Mar 16, 2011

Ok

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Relax, comfortable, good cooperation and welfare

Cons

Low response time from headquater

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