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Tenneco is a global manufacturing company, is pioneering global ideas for cleaner air, and smoother, quieter and safer transportation. They are one of the world's leading designers, manufacturers and distributors of Ride Performance and Clean Air products and technology solutions for diversified markets, including light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway equipment and the aftermarket. They serve their customers from 92 manufacturing facilities and 15 engineering and technical centers around the world, delivering advanced technologies, quality products, powerful brands and outstanding engineering and manufacturing capabilities. Headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, their 32,000 employees around the world demonstrate the company's commitment to shareholder value, their customers' success, employee engagement and sustainability.
The staff at Tenneco come from unusually diverse demographic backgrounds. The company is 31.5% female and 33.7% ethnic minorities. The diversity in Tenneco employees extends to employee political beliefs. Its employees are politically diverse and represent a balanced blend of political orientations, with 48.5% Democrats and 51.5% Republicans. Despite their political differences, employees at Tenneco seem to be happy. The company has great employee retention with staff members usually staying for 4.9 years.The average employee at Tenneco makes $50,141 per year. In comparison, some of its highest paying competitors, like Tesla, Autoliv, and BorgWarner, pay $108,037, $60,183, and $59,193, respectively.
Based in Illinois, Tenneco is an industry leader with 78,000 employees and an annual revenue of $18.0B.

Tenneco's mission statement

To delight our customers as the number-one technology-driven, global manufacturer and marketer of value-differentiated ride control, emission control and elastomer products and systems.

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A zippia user wrote a review on May 2025
Pros of working at Tenneco

None

Cons of working at Tenneco

Tenneco’s management doesn’t care about employees. The company’s slogans are “get stuff done”, “game on” and “no excuses”. You’ll never hear people is their asset or that they care employees are working long hours per day and week. Management sending emails, texts and calling out of office hours and weekends because upper management urges some answer about some dumb thing they could’ve ask during the day. Worst company ever! I’m taking about past and new management! To be honest you can’t decide which one is worst.

Tenneco benefits

There are not perks of benefits of working here

What do you like best about Tenneco's CEO and the leadership team?

There is nothing to like. The slogans and the culture are never about the people. The CEO and management team are so focus in results and spending money in “leadership meetings” in Miami instead of how the people is treated because of their way of work.

How would you improve Tenneco's culture?

By focusing on people and clear timing for information needed. Results and getting stuff done are important but at what cost, employees are working so many hours because there are bad work calendars and information is always urgent because management is so bad organized that they don’t know what they want. Always asking for the same information from different departments just in different formats.

How did you prepare for the Tenneco interview?

Don’t prepare at all, is better if you find another place to work. Don’t work for this company is the worst, don’t work for any business unit at all.

How does your compensation at Tenneco compare to the industry average?

The compensation is good because they don’t find people to work with them. That claim to want the best but the reality is they need to pay more than the average industry because is a really bad company.

What's the diversity at Tenneco like?

They moved a lot of production out of the U.S. so maybe if you live in another country is good.

What brings you the most joy at Tenneco?

There is no joy, just stress and problems every day because of the lack of planning from management. Need to work every day from 6am to 11pm and answer the phone whenever they call even during the weekends and yes, Saturdays and Sundays to get “stuff done” because if you don’t you are giving “excuses” and that not the “Tenneco way”.

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A zippia user wrote a review on Jan 2025
Pros of working at Tenneco

great place to work.

Cons of working at Tenneco

good experience.

Tenneco benefits

the pay and the people that work thier

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A zippia user wrote a review on Feb 2024
Pros of working at Tenneco

Decent pay

Cons of working at Tenneco

Underqualified Management.

Tenneco benefits

None. The cost has went up 185%

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A zippia user wrote a review on Sep 2022
Pros of working at Tenneco

There is not enough positives worth mentioning. I am positive that tenneco is the worst place I have ever worked. Tennecco is the least professional and most ill lead company there is.

Cons of working at Tenneco

The lack of care for employees and disrespect from upper management is the main problem at tenneco. Under staffed due to mistreating and poor leadership. You would be lucky to see 24 hours a week. You are not given any notice of schedule changes, cut hours or shut downs. The higher ups use the employees as escape goats and actively look for reasons to fire people they don't like. There is no accountability at tenneco. You will be demanded to do Un lawful and unsafe tasks because meeting quota is all that matters. In the last year, only a couple hired have remained out of the hundreds. Tenneco is a revolving door.

Tenneco benefits

The lack of super vision. 1 supervisor for multiple departments, only working on 1 shift. No hr on 2nd or 3rd shift, so if you have a problem, good luck because no one will be there to help you. There were 3 physical assaults by one employee last year. He still has a job because people gave up trying to get help.

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The team at Tenneco

  • The key people at Tenneco is Brian J. Kesseler.
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Tenneco rankings

Tenneco is ranked #42 on the Best Automotive companies to work for in America list. Zippia's Best Places to Work lists provide unbiased, data-based evaluations of companies. Rankings are based on government and proprietary data on salaries, company financial health, and employee diversity.

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Tenneco salaries

Average Tenneco salary
$50,141
yearly
$24.11 hourly
Updated March 14, 2024

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Tenneco diversity

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We calculated Tenneco’s diversity score by measuring multiple factors, including the ethnic background, gender identity, and language skills of Tenneco’s workforce.
Tenneco diversity summary. Zippia estimates Tenneco's demographics and statistics using a database of 30 million profiles. Zippia verifies estimates with BLS, Census, and current job openings data for accuracy. We calculated Tenneco's diversity score by measuring multiple factors, including the ethnic background, gender identity, and language skills of Tenneco's workforce.
  • Tenneco has 78,000 employees.
  • 31% of Tenneco employees are women, while 69% are men.
  • The most common ethnicity at Tenneco is White (66%).
  • 12% of Tenneco employees are Black or African American.
  • 11% of Tenneco employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • The average employee at Tenneco makes $50,141 per year.
  • Tenneco employees are most likely to be members of the republican party.
  • Employees at Tenneco stay with the company for 4.9 years on average.

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Tenneco financial performance

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Tenneco currently has 18.0B in revenue. Tenneco's most recent quarter produced 4.9b (q3'2022).

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Highest paying Tenneco competitors

Compare Tenneco salaries to competitors, including Tesla, Autoliv, and BorgWarner. Employees at Tesla earn the highest average yearly salary of $108,037. The salaries at Autoliv average $60,183 per year, and the salaries at BorgWarner come in at $59,193 per year.
RankCompanyAverage salaryJobs
1$108,0370
2$60,1830
3$59,1930
4$58,6340
5$53,3770
6$49,3820
7$47,3330
8$42,5900
9$40,3290
10$39,6560

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