Nidec reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(412 total reviews)
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Shigenobu Nagamori

77% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Nidec has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 412 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nidec employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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412 reviews
2.0
Jul 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Will not easily fire staff. - Good place for retirement life.

Cons

- Typically Japanese culture, long working hours required. - Staff being promoted base on working years in company but not own capability. Lead to some management level just have the tittle but without the capability to solve problems. - Serious office politic environment. If you able to get close to some management level then you will easy to get promoted. - Almost every decision making power also control by Japanese staff, foreigner staff do not have any power. - Too focus on details, work hard but not work smart. Waste so much time to turning around but not work for the best results. - A place for retirement, everyday just turning around focus on same problem and keep look into details. - Even you are really capable on work but still wont get promoted easily. Company criteria to promoted a staff will be 1) Japanese staff or 2) Long service staff or 3) Staff who have good relationship with management. - Company more look into who can work longer instead of who can work better.

4.0
Jul 11, 2016

Was an okay place to work, but is falling apart

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice coworkers, semi relaxed workplace. casual Fridays, occasional doughnut.

Cons

management really don't pay attention to anything but the numbers and it has gotten worse over the years. Seems to be no one held accountable no matter how bad things go. A lot of finger pointing.

3.0
May 26, 2016

Engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Job is very secure, great portfolio of products, good Health Ins. Barbecues at work. Close family knit.

Cons

Long Hours, 10+ expected. Japanese mindset (i.e. workaholics, you'll never see you family, etc.)

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