Festo Reviews

Worst benefits Management is down to bullying and intimidation.They are unable to figure out CS a business model different from festo core pneumatic products and the war withon the company is uncalled and awful.The Managers practice racial slurs, under 30 folks have left the place and all they have is older folks playing games with each other.Nasty control cabinet business with no growth potential at least the way they are running the show.HR is extremely incompetent and the place just became melancholy in the past 3 years.

**This review is likely to be pushed down by adding fake good reviews (by current employees)!! Cons are: 1. Work - Limited projects to work. You will not be evaluated on your work.. but you will be surely judged based on your agreement/disagreement with the management. Zero tolerance for difference of opinions. Difference of opinion will lead to your demotion/isolation from the team. 2. Work environment – i). Lacks professionalism – Meetings are cancelled at last minute without any information/justifications, people are nominated for trainings based on favouritism. ii)Employees are forced to sign minimum 2 years bond post any international training(no matter if the training was exclusive or not). iii). Narrow minded people- You are not allowed to talk to people freely.. there will always be a third eye watching you and reporting your personal behaviour to the higher ups. Many times, you will be called up for special advisory sessions wherein you will be told whom should you talk to and even what should you talk. 3. HR & Work policies – (i)9.5 working hours daily with no flexibility. (ii)No work from home option, no sick leaves available. Loss of pay(LOP) is absolutely fine. Earned leaves(EL) is pro-rata basis and gets credited only in next year beginning. So, in the first year of joining, it becomes very very difficult to take leaves because you have no ELs and hence you have to go for LOPs. Just in case you are a lady, pls do consider that they do not have an open culture and no HR policies to ease your life (sick leaves/work from home/flexibility). iii)Breakfast and lunch are available on paid basis. You need to punch (in biometrics) for lunch on daily basis. The golden rule is that even if you take lunch from their canteen once, by default, money for that whole month will be deducted. (What is the use of biometric punching for lunch then??) iv)You are not allowed to move out of office premises during work hours without HOD’s written permission. v) There is no food/snacks vendors within office premise(other than the canteen breakfast and lunch for limited time) and you cannot move out of premises as per (iii). vi)No recreational facilities(like sports/fun activities) for employees. Team outings once in 1-2 years depending on the mood of higher ups. Employee engagement activities are considered as a waste of time. 4. Transparency - Decisions are taken up by higher management without any logics/justification or considerations. Festo as a company has very good values on paper (like innovative, open, committed, etc.), but the management doesn’t follow any of them. 5. Exit process – HR department is very clumsy and shady in terms of exit process. In case of early relieving, they simply communicate/agree to a date. They do not inform anything about whether you owe them any money (and the amount) or you do not owe. But, at the time of final settlement (i.e. one month post your release when you are expecting your salary) they might suddenly ask you to pay lacs of money as settlement amount. It is assumed that ‘since you did not raise a query to check if you owe us anything, you agree to pay whatever the company asks you for.’ I have seen this chaos happening in multiple cases. There is a clear gap in communication from HR side and this gap is closed by blaming the employees.