Tenneco reviews

3.1

48% would recommend to a friend

(1,361 total reviews)
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Jim Voss

54% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Tenneco has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,361 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tenneco 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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4.0
Oct 9, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Tenneco treated me very well. I was able to complete my Master's degree while there and was paid for. The company allowed me to work on other functional department projects. As an engineer, I worked on marketing, sales, accounting, and others. I was always busy and felt proud of my contributions. Salary was decent. Benefits average for the industry. Gregg has done a good job turning it around from Mark. He likes to use facts and figures to make a call compared to a knee jerk decision.

Cons

Very typical automotive that is publicly traded. 4th quarter expense lock down and sometimes too focused on cost cutting. They roll out high level strategies to all the division's regardless if it makes sense for that division at that time. I was there during a rather big layoff and no input to which of my employees should be kept. For most people in the auto industry, this should not be a surprise. Employee recognition was minimal. My general manager was one to take all the credit. I don't think this applies to all the different divisions from what I saw.

2.0
Oct 6, 2015

Not goood Work environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Global Company enlisted in Fortune 500

Cons

Very bad HR. Very hard to get a response from them

2.0
Sep 24, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Tenneco has excellent vision, talented team members, benefits are top notch, business platform is well diversified, opportunities are available for some.

Cons

Execution of the Tenneco's vision falls apart at shop floor supervision level, promotion from with in does not take place as it should. The company has created too many special positions for executives which is not needed, by doing this it interferes with plant level teams ability to grow by learning. At the Indiana plants the quality engineers and managers are completely incompetent to do their tasks and rely on others from other departments to do the work for them. Individuals who are workhorses or individuals that have excellent work ethics will never reach higher then plant staff position and paid much lower, because the work will get done, where as the slackers are promoted over paid and given plants opportunities that are above plant staff.

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