Belden reviews

3.7

74% would recommend to a friend

(403 total reviews)

Ashish Chand

100% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Belden has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 403 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Belden employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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403 reviews
1.0
Sep 1, 2016

Toxic environment (Proof: Employee turnover)

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most of their buildings provide heat during the winter.

Cons

The environment is very toxic - which comes from the top: Execs do not help employees, only judge them. Their whole Strategic Deployment Process focuses only on the "bad", perpetually in counter-measure mode, never celebrating the "good". And the use of frequent, random lay-offs are standard practice in their fear & intimidation playbook. Sales & Marketing organizations are largely dysfunctional: Significant employee turnover coupled with extremely short-term obsession. As a salesperson, you'll spend countless hours poring over spreadsheets and discussing your funnel repeatedly to various different audiences (most of them in Finance). Marketing is a mere sideshow - understaffed, underfunded, with no plan to bring it to this century. This is not a good place to work - period. If you do wish to pursue a commercial role with them, do two things first: (1) Reach out to former employees who can share their experiences with you; and (2) Ask to see employee turnover data. [They might parade their employee engagement survey scores as a defense, but know this: While the responses are supposed to be "anonymous", the survey requires responders to enter so much information about them (Business Unit, Job function, location) that one can easily match survey to employee. It's a running joke amongst the employees - who admittedly skew their answers to protect themselves]

1.0
Aug 30, 2016

Complete Dearth of True Leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You do have the ability to leave the company at any time.

Cons

The industrial division is one of the most ineptly run sales organizations of any company I've seen. Over the past eight years, the group has gone through seven VP of sales, each time throwing highly qualified leaders to the side until the executive team could settle on one who has had no experience in sales, nor any leadership qualities necessary to running a sales organization. Current management believes that leadership entails merely holding endless conference calls to discuss spreadsheet data that are readily available through the company's sales tracking system. You will experience no sales guidance or mentoring, merely criticisms that the team isn't living up to it's contribution to share value and the latest unrealistic sales goals. Bonus monies are subject to disappointing changes well into the process. These are not the qualities you would look for in a company as a sales professional. Since the current sales leadership took over, the industrial group has lost over 24 highly qualified individuals, with only three of those being let go (those individuals being highly qualified as well). The team is in a downward spiral, and more departures are imminent. The CEO runs the company like a fiefdom, pushing money and acquisitions around the board like chess pieces to prop up the share value, while ignoring the true leadership requirements needed to keep a company engaged and energized. Employee forced ranking is hard-coded policy here, a practice popular at the infamous Enron, and one that most companies have since abandoned. The employees tend to be guided only by fear of losing their jobs. Most who have departed have questioned why they did not make that decision sooner. You will not find a former employee who is disappointed to no longer be working for Belden. Following the failed takeover of the competitor Ruggedcom, the former Ruggedcom CEO Marzio Pozzuoli made this comment about Belden to the Toronto Star news organization: “They are bottom feeders.” And the Star says: “Belden had a reputation of sucking the competitive zest out of the companies it acquired.” Belden is truly a graveyard of once successful companies. Stay away from this toxic corporation.

3.0
Aug 9, 2016
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Pros

nice building, good group of people, profitable, location

Cons

closed, constant head count reduction, only interest in low cost countries, poor investment in equipment and resources

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