Marelli Reviews

Leadership is a closed, self‑protective group—many appear to have been pushed out of previous organizations due to their own mistakes. Instead of correcting course, they continue repeating the same failures here, dragging employees and the company down with them. Work–life balance simply does not exist. Weekend work is normalized, uncompensated, and unavoidable. “Comp‑offs” are meaningless because you will never get approval to use them due to nonstop workload. HR has no authority, no empathy, and no real role beyond acting as a messenger for decisions made by global teams. They do not support employees and rarely intervene in genuine issues. Performance evaluations are dishonest and demoralizing. Even if you deliver consistently, meet impossible deadlines, and go above expectations, you may still be labeled as “poor performer” during appraisals with no transparency. Poor workplace conditions. The food quality is extremely low, forcing most employees to spend extra money eating outside. Severe lack of essential development tools. The company does not invest in basic items like CANoe, proper debuggers, or necessary automotive development equipment. Teams constantly fight over limited tools, leading to friction, delays, and conflicts — yet management refuses to address the root cause. Job security is unstable. The company uses the automotive industry’s volatility as justification for sudden layoffs, prioritizing leaders over employees every time. Overall culture is deteriorating rapidly. Employees burn out while leadership enjoys the benefits of their work. When failures occur (often due to mismanagement), blame is pushed downward onto teams.

Many unfit , in-experienced people are given higher roles like COE heads, example System-SW-Arch-Management COE head Santh***, who is less than 13 yrs with minimal knowledge on some old telematics projects, due to buttering within few months of joining Marelli was elevated to this high post. He is technically very poor and also doesn't know how to manage projects just know buttering and talking. Also these people and influencing and creating unwanted higher roles and bringing people who are their followers(from his prev org). This is creating lot of issues among more experienced who are there in Marelli from long time and delivering results. The experienced are made reporting to these fools and now marelli facing attrition losing the actual talents The above said Leaders/Heads are not having right attitude, in open meetings he says to fire people. The people who are working hard and driving are only targeted and blasted openly but not this favorites. The Buttering guys like Anik**, Manoh**, who are less experienced but since they are given LEADER roles they behave live commanders and all others are slaves. the so called Architect says he is enabler only, whereas he is supposed to sit with developers and help them solve issue. This shows they are technically poor but sitting in top position of ladder.