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Our colleague Noah made it to his dream job working as an autonomous driving engineer. The Technical Project Lead loves challenges of highly complicated projects, like autonomous vehicles, and is constantly searching for solutions. Currently he is working on our Continental Urban Mobility Experience (CUbE), an electric four-wheel autonomous vehicle used primarily for first- and last-mile transportation. It involves multi-disciplined projects, where electrical, safety, mechanical and computer engineers and many other professionals work together in order to move forward. Find out why Noah thinks autonomous driving might be the biggest challenge facing today’s generation of engineers and why it is something that can have a major impact on quality of life around the world.
Everyone at Continental is part of a worldwide network. Our different cultural backgrounds, age, gender, unique personalities, ideas and knowledge, unite us and make us approach things with an open mind, share different perspectives, learn from each other, and turn these differences into innovations. Our diversity enables us to grow, both as individuals and as a business. We are many. And we are one.
Our Software Academy is celebrating its 2nd anniversary this year! The internal global online learning platform is available anytime and for every employee who wants to develop or expand their software competence. The academy is facing an extraordinarily increase in participants and completed trainings. More than 15,000 colleagues worldwide, among them almost 6,000 learners without software background, are active users of the Software Academy. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, classroom training around the globe was transferred into digital format last year – leading to a significant increase in the platform’s usage rate. Compared to 2019, with almost 11,000 completed trainings items, in 2020 we had more than 50,000 completed trainings. Our Software training catalog also nearly tripled in 2020, offering around 300 courses. A big Thank You to our Software Academy team who give us the means to not only cope with a fast-evolving field, but proactively master the digital transformation with big steps! This is what Valeska, one colleague participating in our
On October 8th Continental will reach a historic milestone, its 150th anniversary. This gives us a reason to cherish our great people the entire year for their contributions to getting us this far. A big “thank you” to each and every Continental employee who gives their best every day – no matter if behind a screen, alongside machines or on a test track. Keeping moving is in our DNA. Millions of people rely on us to travel safer, cleaner, more comfortably and conveniently. As in our successful past, we will keep turning change into opportunity for a connected and sustainable future mobility. Let’s keep our Passion To Win alive and let our ideas shape the future for our next successful 150 years. #Continental150Years #FeelOurHeartbeat
Meet our colleague Sherry-Ann who works as a Material Developer for two of our tire products ContiSeal and ContiSilent. Coming from academia background, Sherry-Ann is joyful and passionate to see something she developed being implemented in reality and that the products add more comfort to the lives of consumer. Working together with her team is also a truly great experience. At Continental, you have the chances to work with great people with various backgrounds, to grow with various opportunities, and to customize your career paths. Find more stories here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMyaG
Meet our colleague You Shing who is head of product development center for camera products in Singapore 🇸🇬. Being an engineer in his blood, he enjoys seeing the birth of a product from sketch. Beyond that, he is transforming cars into drivers’ buddies who care about the drivers’ health status and emotions. He has set up teams in China and in Singapore, a group of talents who share the same vision to make the vehicles future-ready. Find more stories here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMENA
Pioneering achievement: Digitalization and innovation are key elements for us – also in our finance department. Together with Siemens and Commerzbank, we have carried out a test transaction as part of a pilot project to process a money market security between the companies using #blockchain technology. Sounds like a time saver, doesn’t it? The commercial paper transaction processed in minutes rather than days! The project is a major step toward fully blockchain-based securities trading. Read how: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMAn6
