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At Bosch, we care. For you, our business, and our environment. Let’s turn visions into reality. At Bosch, we shape the future by inventing high-quality technologies and services that spark enthusiasm and enrich people’s lives. Our areas of acti...

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Don't join JMP!

10/18/2023 - Junior Managers Program (JMP) at Budapest
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The new office in Budapest is nice, but it lacks a personal touch. Too big, feels like a modern way of keeping slaves.

Cons

You go through 6 rounds of interviews, including a personality test, which takes a long time. HR promises you everything, and reality settles in shortly after you join. They lie about the contract, fail to mention important details and deny to address them once you sign. The whole concept of JMP in Hungary is flawed. HR hires for positions where receiving departments have no headcount but would like some. It's a mentor roulette - HR sells the whole program as a great opportunity, with you taking the lead on setting up your stage plan (4x6 months rotation plan) with the help of your mentor - only for this to turn out to be false. My rotation plan was already set in stone, and my so-called "mentor" was not interested in my needs or opinion, only their own. If you get a mentor who sucks, you're stuck with them for 4 years. They will try to intimidate and blackmail you into staying, and if you decide to speak up honestly, they will fire you - just like it happened to me. Currently, about 80% of JMPs leave Bosch after the program ends. Senior management does not care about JMP as they are too occupied with investigating whether employees pay for all items at the restaurant. If you're okay with being a corporate lapdog and keeping your mouth shut, feel free to choose Bosch Hungary.

Diversity is an integral part of our corporate strategy and is anchored as one of our values in the “We are Bosch” mission statement. For us, diversity is reflected in the uniqueness of our associates, their personalities, experiences and perspectives. By including everyone and ensuring equal opportunities we unleash our full potential.

 

Cultural Diversity 

We are convinced that our great cultural diversity strengthens us. As a global player, people from more than 150 different nations work at Bosch. Intercultural competencies are therefore in demand every day. That is why we strengthen international collaboration and make use of our cultural diversity in an inclusive environment.

Selected highlights and activities:

  • Associate Networks afric@bosch, For Bosch abroad, TürkishForum Bosch, chinese@bosch, Hispanics@Bosch, Asians@Bosch, AfricanAncestry@Bosch
  • At “World Roulette”, interested associates get to know each other around the world to expand their international networks and broaden their horizons.
  • More than 2,200 expats per year
  • Diverse seminars around internationality, global cooperation and culture

 

Generations 

Competence has nothing to do with age. What counts for us is the combination out of experiences and fresh, innovative ideas. We ensure a working atmosphere, in which up to five generations can collaborate effectively. With our concepts for lifelong learning, health care management and systematic know-how and experience exchange, we create the base for a successful cooperation across all generations.

Selected highlights and activities:

  • Associate Network Generations@Bosch
  • Lifestage-oriented professional development
  • Exchange across generations and cooperation with the Generationtandem
  • Bosch Management Support with worldwide established senior experts
  • Reverse Mentoring

 

Flexible and mobile working culture 

Excellence requires balance. We foster a working culture, in which our associates can authentically bring in their strengths. That‘s why we offer flexible and mobile working models, in order to find individual solutions for professional development, life stages and private goals as well as to ensure a better compatibility of work and private life.

Selected Highlights & Activities:

  • Diverse flexible and mobile working models: job sharing, part-time work, home office, sabbatical, remote working …
  • Associate network family@Bosch

 

Gender Diversity 

Many studies show: Mixed teams at all levels of the company develop better products and services. At Bosch, everyone has the same opportunities regardless of gender — and that applies to leadership roles, too.

Selected highlights and activities:

  • Equal Pay
  • Mentoring programs und seminar series like the „Business Women‘s Program“ for women in specialist, project and leading functions
  • Associate Networks women@bosch, the female engineer's network heratec and forum „women in technology”

 

LGBT*IQ 

For Bosch counts the appreciation of all associates — regardless their sexual orientation or gender identity. We connect associates and foster the exchange between people with different sexual identities and orientations and their mutual understandings. Everyone should bring themselves in authentically at Bosch.

Selected highlights and activities:

  • Associate network b:proud, including an ally initiative
  • Promotion and sponsoring of the initiative PROUT@Work

 

Persons with disabilities 

We foster our innovation by focusing on the individual competences of our associates, not their limitations. That‘s why we create a working culture, which considers and appreciates the special needs and competences of every single associate. Everyone is part of the diversity and brings in their special competences and strengths.

Selected highlights and activities:

  • Representatives for people with disabilities at locations
  • Cooperation with workshops for people with disabilities
  • Associate network BeAdapt@Bosch
Robert Bosch Awards & Accolades

World%E2%80%99s%20Best%20Employers%20, https://www.forbes.com/consent/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/lists/worlds-best-employers/, 2022 Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Award - Top 50 Large Companies, Glassdoor, 2020