Tektronix Employee Reviews
Out of 79 Tektronix employee reviews, 81% were positive. The remaining 19% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Tektronix improve their work culture.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Managers are more worried about productivity using broken metrics than anything else.
They do not micro-manage the teams and let us work with a reasonable amount of autonomy.
They are very helpful and enjoy hearing about your experience
Supportive and focused on results.
My direct line manager is focused on making the team successful and improving all things we touch. She encourages learning and advancement from within the team. She also encourages us to mentor others to success.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Valuing the Employees over the Shareholders. Valuing the Customer over the Shareholders. Listening to employee feedback. Delivering an organized strategy and or even a vision.
Taking a step into the world of "math and physics" where moving from point A to point B doesn't take ZERO time. Stop managing through spreadsheet models and get on the floor and do what you're asking your employees to do.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Annual raises and good bonus
The health benefits are great as is the 401k/retirement benefits.
Health insurance and summer hours
RSUs and Stock Options are fair and inline with others in the industry.
Health insurance generally has good coverage
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
As with every company that values Shareholders over employees the benefits become more and more anemic year over year.
It would be nice to be paid for 5 days of work instead of 4 when working 40+ hours a week.
Benefits are shopped each year to the lowest bidder. No assistance from the company to navigate the benefits obstacle course. Only L1 is compensated well. All other groups fight for 1% increases. Even office supplies are hard to come by (many people bring from home).
An AWESOME annual merit pay increase would be 2-3% at BEST at Tektronix. You're more likely to see 1.2 - 1.8% with a lot of promises that "next year will be better".
What are some of the best things about your team?
They believe in customers and they value the memory of the Tektronix Brand. We work hard to support one another despite management. I work with people who still believe in getting things done right and on time.
Tektronix has a great work culture, lots of diversity. While corporate management and IT structure may not be great, people are friendly and willing to help.
Everyone one helps each other in need..
Super organized and are really devoted to their careers
Very collaborative, supportive, and focused on continuous improvement.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Personal opinion can interrupt professional collaboration on projects.
No sense of a team. Feels like contractors inside a company.
Due to Fortive KPI Culture, created many silos, alignment of priorities never were good. Leadership focus heavily on short term results, paying far insufficient efforts and resources to ensure good internal strategic alignment across the company. Keep speaking slogan only. Others follow or shut up.
STOP DOING THINGS just because "that's the way we've been doing it"... challenge EVERY task you can't see a clear justification for doing. STOP USING FIVE SHEETS OF PAPER FOR EVERYTHING!
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
We have nice windows in the building I'm in. Not much culture anymore, just company specific aphorisms and catch phrases.
Tektronix celebrates successes, and at least in the sale organization, they have nice events and outings. I've never heard any name calling or yelling on a meeting like I have at other places. Management encourages people to take their vacation.
The culture is progressive and open to innovation and change
Everyone is in a rather good mood and theres a great place for snacks and coffee refills
Support you receive from senior leadership
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
It is a joke... it seems as if you have to take 7 minutes instead of 5 to use the rest room they're looking for SOME way to recover that time from you.
What did you like most about the interview process?
I like the people, they seemed genuinely interested in me and excited to get to know me. Very personable.
It was relaxed and was done in stages with a fair amount of communication between steps
They outlined what I would be working on and it made me feel better about entering my position
Speed and feedback were very consistent and appropriate.
I was able to meet with the actual employees who would become my manager and coworkers.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Solving customer's test and measurement problems.
The autonomy and ability to try new things
The enviorment and I feel super smart
Challenging myself and others to achieve breakthroughs that seemed unachievable.
Meeting with my team and working on things I'm passionate about.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
People feel disjointed and confused about the future.
Silos created by individualized or misaligned or cascading of KPIs. Things can't be measured can't get justified. Marketing as a sales support, rather than a leading role in crafting the market or the company strategy, this isn't right. Underestimated the importance of and under-invested in mktg
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