Pros
One of the best reasons to work at Cummins is the opportunity to work for a global company which is a leader in its industry. You have the opportunity to often work with colleagues from around the globe. Sometimes there is opportunity for international travel. The work can be challenging and complex. There is a lot of autonomy, but the culture is sink or swim. You can create your own career path, but be careful doing it. Good opportunities for training so long as you seek them out. The company benefits are competitive. I was able to work in four locations including one non-U.S. assignment.
Cons
Cummins was once a great company to work for. That was true through the tenure of Tim Solso as CEO. The current leadership team changed the culture and the feel of the workplace in a negative way. It starts with them. The current senior leadership team is aloof and arrogant. They lack the qualities of former company leaders who inspired people to follow them. There is a lot of talk about corporate values, such as diversity. But the leadership team is not very diverse at all. Further, they have not created a culture of inclusion, like they would like everyone to believe. Instead, they have created a culture of exclusion. There are very limited opportunities for advancement at this company unless you fit a very specific mold of personality type and skin color. The company's six sigma program was once a fantastic program for reducing waste and cost. Now the six sigma program is a bureaucratic nightmare - a rudderless ship in need direction. Instead of being driven by the need to reduce waste and variation, six sigma is now used internally as a weapon to hang over peoples heads, and to block career advancement. This drives people across the company to create useless six sigma projects just so they can check a box in their HR file. The company culture was collaborative for decades. Now the company culture is cut-throat. Individuals will step on their colleagues and intentionally make colleagues look bad in order to advance their own careers. People in positions of leadership are not well trained, and seem to be blind to this dynamic. The Human Resources function is broken. The IT function is broken. Other corporate functions are broken. After a long tenure at Cummins of more than 2 decades, I decided to leave. I witnessed the company I loved transform into a place I could barely tolerate. My colleagues, who were indeed diverse, and who were from many countries, were wonderful individuals to work with. I still value their friendships. Unfortunately, the company culture has changes so much, many of my former colleagues are miserable. I understand their misery.
