Not a bad place to start your career...leave for greener pastures after 3 years.
Pros
Good work/life balance, good time off from work for personal issues, decent profit sharing during goood economy, good training opportunities at Columbus, projects are simple enough and ideal for someone with 0-3 years experience.
Cons
For an ambitious engineer with some experience, the moderate work load and relatively simple project work can get very mundane and discouraging. Base salary is very low compared to similar positions in the industry. External professional hires always always earn a higher salary than the home grown talent. Pay increases and grade changes are only a matter of time. You cannot jump jobs and hope to earn a significant payraise. In rare instances, they offer a tiny equity increase after hard negotiations. Cummins follows a rack and stack system where roughly bottom 5% of workforce gets seperated every year. Few of the older managers at Cummins use this to their own advantage to weed out the engineers they dont get along with regardless of how productive those engineers are. Since they have a single product, the company does not offer diverse job types in engineering. If you have a passion for diesel engines, you may like the positions they offer. Common jobs are, Development engineer (test plan and validation), Design Engineer (Pro/E packaging work), Performance Engineering (interesting work) and Controls Engineering. Besides, Cummins is infamous for layoffs.
