ABB Turbocharging has become a new independent company since earlier this year with a new name "Accelleron".

Is there anyone working here for them? There are some positions open there and but I cannot find any information about benefits, organization and culture on glassdoor.

Maybe someone here is working for them and can tell us more about benefits like pension (2nd pillar), bonus etc.

Is it just the same ABB division with the same culture and ABB benefits or really a new company with a different culture and benefits/pay-scale?

I know nothing about it but from what you describe it feels like a spin off and read the head of the division stayed the same - hence on the culture for now at least should be a bunch of ABB people who are going to go about it exactly the same as before. One does not change culture overnight.

First of all I would not rely on Glassdoor for anything serious and secondly you are asking about confidential information which most people with a bit of sense are not going to discuss with you.

This is one of the reasons this forum exists IMHO.
People share this information elsewhere in the forum: e.g. more than average contribution for BVG or employer pays more than employee or bonus rate is high but they never pay more than 50% of the target etc.

You must be reading a different forum to me then for well over a decade because I can’t remember a single person discussing the details of their remuneration package beyond very limited generalities.

Why not apply and ask in the interview?

Will do. Just getting prepared. For this some rough info about them would help me to define by expectations before the interview.

All I can say is that they have historically been one of the more successful ABB companies. They weren't really ABB core business and synergies with the rest of the Group were limited, reason for which they were spun off.

They are a leader in their industry and focus a lot of their efforts on R&D to remain in that position.

They work globally so, depending on your position, there are opportunities for travel and even foreign assignments.

A previous poster said that it is probably still an ABB culture. To be honest, it was never really a truly ABB culture as Turbocharging was often considered to be "something else" and they always felt very independent and often "did their own thing" as far as it was allowed.

ABB is one of the ‚good‘ employers, at least renumeration wise - benefits will be standard according to the industry. (Worked within ABB for 3 years, but in a different division, and then they became my client). Childs other parent worked there more than a decade, and their father almost 27 years before getting laid-off. Your first interview will anyway not touch on benefits. If they invite you to a second interview, then you might find out a bit more.

In my experience however (also with other large Swiss employers), you usually only get the details once you have signed the contract, and your employment has begun. You might also get a pre-calculated bonus estimate on your final interview / offer. However, this is of course based on your performance, as well as that of the teams and the company’s.

Then you receive the „Employee information package“, inclusive terms of your employment (and disclosure of internal and confidential information clauses).

Would you like to provide examples of such posts on this forum?

Really? I thought most employees keep on joking about how ABB stands for "andere bezahlen besser" ("others pay better")...

I have rarely heard employees satisfied with their salary in any industry or company ...

He didn't say anything about salary (remuneration). They're good at counting or numbering things again.

Current employee posting here anonymously as I am about to resign. . .

In general I would not recommend working for this company (see paragraph in bold).

Working there can be a good experience or truly awful. In terms of culture, I would say it's rather traditional and old fashioned, leadership people are mostly old white men, mostly Swiss and German people. The middle management is also usually white Swiss German men or German men. If you want to progress in this company it's mandatory to speak good German, a lot of employees don't speak English.

Some teams are more international than others, IT and Service is more international I would say, especially new employees.

They did lay off some people who were here for over 20 years during covid but now seems like the business is more or less settled. The business is doing well and we can assume it will continue to do well in the upcoming years.

The salary is average, my friend earn better wages than I do. Some of them earn less so I would say it's average, not the best but not the worse.

The wages seem better for newcomers as they are now a no-name brand and need money to attract and retain people. The people who were hired as ABB employees earn less.

The pension scheme is changing and most likely the employees will be worse off. The other incentives remain the same as ABB: bonus, time off, maternity leave, etc.

Right now it is stressful to work for the company as it is still in transition mode. Lots of people are leaving so the remaining ones get more and more work, it is a vicious circle.

So in a nutshell depends who will be your manager, some of them are good, others are known to be old school and incompetent, like in any company. Our engineers are excellent people. Used to be a lot of engineers from ETH but they hire more and more people from abroad as the industry attracts less and less people.

In terms of benefits, I would say don't expect to grow in the company, trainings are nonexistent. If you work in the office, presence is mandatory onsite 20% of the time (if you live in Germany or France then it's more, I believe 1 day for German people and 3 days for French people) but it's up to the manager how often they want you in the office. If you work in Service you do have to travel sometimes.