Good people, troubled business model - Senior Marketing Manager Magellan GPS Employee Review

3.0
Dec 12, 2021
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Pros

Great people with a friendly working environment. Lots of ability to be creative and scrappy across sales and marketing department's

Cons

Troubled financially with a non competitive product set. Ownership by Mitac Digital out of Tiawan made for difficult adaptation of successful international products into the regional market place.

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5.0
Dec 24, 2019
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Pros

Strong product leadership with innovation in GPS technology for consumer electronics, fleet, and offroad industries. Year after year CES innovation awards. New management team to lead the company to success in a very competitive space.

Cons

Refocusing on product quality and service

2.0
Dec 15, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Magellan provides a great outside view of what they used to be like as a company, unfortunately those days are long gone Great product ideas, very poor execution Finance - driven company No accountability Very process driven culture, where new and creative ideas outside of system just die Meetings and conference calls that never start on time Low salaries

Cons

Company will push new products into market before testing them to make sure they work correctly leading to high return rates. Contentious conference calls and meetings Constant blaming internal groups instead of fixing the broken system Crazy work hours, since they are a Taiwanese Company, it's late nights and early mornings to speak to head office No salary increase, bonus or COLA last 4 years

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