Q&A With GEA Group Employees

GEA needs to swing back with de-centralisation. OneGEA condensed all decision making in Germany and this German-centric position does not work outside Europe.

If management would better listen to the employees, and take their advice into consideration.

quite ok

Most office employees stick to a 9-5 schedule with some late nights needed. But in general your social life remains unaffected. For the guys on the road it is much harder to retain social life as you're sometimes booked on a job last minute and have to cancel personal plans.

In general there are no remote positions. But GEA Group has over 200 locations around the world, and there are some exceptions for certain positions in some countries.

Yes, all over the world.

promotions are decided by managers and networks

Alot of the promotions have been because you know the right people when promotions come but they generally say they will promote from within but you never really hear about it until the person has accepted the new position.

Amazing 401k, medical, life insurance, and traveling perks for the road warriors.

Layoffs have a softer name in GEA: "hive offs". Layoff process depends entirely on the direct manager. HR do not help at all. To the contrary, they usually complicate things innecesarily.

burden

very little

delivering great solutions to customers

normal

short term is not good, but medium term it must reorganize and change for good.

no negative feedback is accepted.

the politically savvy ones

how much salary they could pay...

Germans have private or shared by two offices. elsewhere maybe open spaces.

very low

very low.

nothing unique

having a good political sponsor

1-2 hours

normal

none was particularly difficult

suit

nothing special

Global/Regional Heads. a week or two