Belden reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(402 total reviews)

Ashish Chand

100% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Belden has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 402 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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402 reviews
1.0
Sep 1, 2016

Toxic environment (Proof: Employee turnover)

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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
May 4, 2018

Sales

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Company appears to have a good financial footing and they aggressive recruit both new (college) and industry performers.

Cons

The CEO is without a moral compass and this cascades into the leadership where a hostile work environment is propagated unfortunately. Turnover is high, stress is a daily companion while you are now looking for the nearest exit door.

1.0
Apr 5, 2018

Danced out the Door.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Paid overtime and mileage. Local managers are fine but powerless.

Cons

Belden IT management likes to make life miserable for acquisitioned IT people. Especially women and minorities.

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