Good Technology Company with bad leadership - Anonymous employee Vestas Wind Systems Employee Review

2.0
Jul 29, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I see some good things in this company. Non traditional energy, technology challenges, work life balance, good working level people,

Cons

But there are a countless number of things which makes this company bad 1) Wrong compensation provided to joining employees and changed immediately after 1st year 2) Management not focused be it in Denmark or different sites. It seriously looks like they would like to dump the company to next available buyer. Only that they are not finding one. 3) Bad IT and Database infrastructure. This is one big mess. No one in world knows who is buying and who is controlling. Seriously, I am not surprised that they are doing a big loss. 4) Improper supplier and customer negotiation. Both department needs to understand Sales need to understand that in squeeze market it is not good to sell at cheap and supply chain need to understand that they cannot go to vendors with gold in their hand. This is royally eating the companies on both sides. 5) Undue expansion and rampant restructuring. Both has no meaning.

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5.0
Jun 17, 2026
Anonymous intern
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Pros

Great benefits with hybrid schedule and social events while being a positive and supportive work environment.

Cons

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2.0
May 7, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Vestas has been at the cutting edge of wind turbine technology for quite some time. They are industry leaders at the global level.

Cons

Culture has been eroding significantly over the past few years. Too many organizational changes, all with the focus on making the shareholders more 'happy,' to the detriment of the employees who have the actual ability to make the work happen. Profit is the only thing that matters at Vestas nowadays and, therefore, several regions that are seemingly less profitable than other are essentially left out to dry. There was always a huge amount of focus on the changing market characteristics, but nearly zero action to make internal changes, either to technology or commercial strategies, in order to improve competitiveness against other WTG OEMs.

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