Gaslight, Gaslight, Gaslight. It is the Trimble way.
Pros
If you’re lucky and land on a good team, you will likely get some really great, kind and genuine people to work with.
Cons
Trimble has a serious culture problem. Some of their largest problems seem to ring true across all divisions. If you’re a young person trying to build a career, stay away from Trimble. If you’re an ambitious, hardworking person who wants to enact change, stay away from Trimble. If you do decide, for whatever reason, to join Trimble. Make sure you negotiate SUPER well coming in because you’ll be lucky if you ever see legitimate growth in compensation. They’ll never pay you above what they believe is industry median for your role. So if you think you’re average at best, it’s the perfect place for you. Leadership is largely mediocre at best. They operate with their own agendas a majority of the time. It’s like a race to see who can claw their way to the top with questionable practice. who will dig in their claws the deepest to get what they want? You’ll never know. The re-orgs are constant. I mean, multiple times per year. There’s a complete inability to have any level of stability. The new C-level team will use buzz words to make it seem like they care about the latest political drives like diversity, so far it’s all been smoke. They also say they’re trying to shift to a ‘people centered’ organization—even renaming the head of HR to Chief People Officer. Hah. But when push comes to shove, leadership only cares about their bottom line—which is making sure they line their pockets with the millions they get every year in stock bonuses and focusing on increasing that value :). When you try to express unhappiness with your compensation, they’ll default to leaning on their bad—nay, horrendous—promotional policies. When you don’t fall for that, they’ll lead to discriminating against your age. Touting that you need to ‘earn your keep’—even when you’ve been operating well above your level for years. Diversity is a joke. Most women in leadership end up getting replaced by men (see recent c-level changes). But don’t worry, the new CEO definitely cares about diversity—even though his brand new executive staff... wasn’t... you guessed it! Diverse. Lots of old, white, males in charge. Lots of old school mentalities that seem to trickle down into every single one of their policies. This includes trying to gaslight their employees into thinking they should be grateful to the company for what they’re being given. The icing on top of the cake was cutting salaries ‘for COVID’ two weeks before performance increases were supposed to go out and barely a month into ‘shutdown’ (hint. A majority of this business is construction... which wasn’t completely shut down in most places). One of the first companies to cut salaries, one of the last to give it back. But we should be grateful they did it (even though their stocks have hit highs nearly all year long—save for two weeks). It all would have almost been believable if they hadn’t pulled financial saving measures the year before by forcing a shutdown that came at the expense of employees PTO or unpaid time off because they thought there *might* be financial hardship. *narrator* There wasn’t. There’s a good saying about mediocre management keeping mediocre employees around to make themselves appear ‘excellent’. It seems Trimble lives and breathes by that. They’ll happily watch good workers go if it means they can save a couple of dolla dolla bills.
