Terrible company with terrible ethics - Anonymous employee Sandvik Employee Review

1.0
19 Oct 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Opportunity to travel worldwide. Easy to stand out in a company filled with underachievers. If you fit in with the drone mentality and thrive in a blame culture, you could do well.

Cons

Not a company to work for if working in a creative environment is important to you. A company filled with "yes people" where incompetence and mysogeny is prevalent and rewarded. Old fashioned culture. Pretend to be ethical at face value, but not practiced in reality. Double standards are plentiful.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
8 Dec 2025
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Pros

Work–life balance is actually respected. Most managers honor boundaries, don’t expect late-night firefighting as the norm, and are fine with you taking time off when you need it. Solid parental leave. The parental leave policy is extremely generous compared to a lot of places in the industry, and leadership is generally supportive of people actually using it. Interesting, challenging work. Plenty of chances to solve real problems, not just busywork. If you’re proactive, you can own projects and grow your skill set. Good benefits package. Healthcare, 401(k), and time off are competitive, and HR does a decent job of making the options clear. Smart coworkers who care. A lot of sharp people who genuinely want to do the right thing for customers and the business, which makes collaboration worthwhile when it works.

Cons

Communication needs improvement. Priorities and decisions don’t always flow clearly from leadership to the teams doing the work, which leads to confusion and rework. Too many silos. Teams tend to operate in their own lane, and cross-functional collaboration can be painful. Information gets stuck instead of shared.

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