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Ascend Performance Materials

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Ascend Performance Materials reviews

3.0

35% would recommend to a friend

(386 total reviews)

Patrick Schumacher

16% approve of CEO

6% positive business outlook

Ascend Performance Materials has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 386 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Ascend Performance Materials employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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386 reviews
4.0
Sep 10, 2017

Rail Logistics Coordinator

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good Benefits, good co-workers, salary fair,

Cons

Poor work/life balance, too much static between plant sites, poor communication lines.

5.0
Sep 3, 2017

Great place to work at

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

Pay training work hours fun

Cons

Nothing is bad about this job

1.0
Aug 15, 2017

Downhill fast, glad I bailed

Recommend
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Pros

Hourly hands and the old timers are great, everyone is friendly and try to look out for one another, unfortunately unit management and HR doesn't want people happy at work anymore, glad I'm gone, the first 6 years were great the last 4 terrible. Cafeteria was pretty good, especially breakfast.

Cons

1. Hope to God you don't get seriously sick, we had people undergoing chemotherapy, having to drag themselves to work, to keep health insurance, Ascend could care less, even though there are plenty of known carcinogens in the plant, the pathetic sick leave and disability policy forces people to do this. 2. The plant is a junk rust bucket, safety hazard. Ascend management is the biggest bunch of tight wads on Earth. They don't care, it's not them out there working with junk. When equipment fails, it's not them that's going to get exposed to chemicals. 3. Benefits really aren't all that great, well below industry standard when it comes to bonus(lucky to get 2%), 401 match(.60 on the dollar up to 8%), sick leave (2% on a rolling calendar),ERT bonus is nothing but a slap in the face embarrassment ($500/yr before taxes) 4. Unit managers are out of control, one has already been sent to anger management, and was still allowed to keep his job, the other is a known pshycopath around​ the plant. How people like this get hired and actually get to keep a job is beyond comprehension. If an "avg"Joe worker behaved like these clowns do, they would be fired on the spot, if not thrown in jail. I witnessed one in particular throw numerous angry, bordering on violent temper tantrums over more or less nothing. I'm talking so mad he was shaking and couldn't talk because his teeth were chattering. Does that sound like someone you would want to work with or for? This type of behavior would occur on just about a weekly basis. This is probably the single biggest problem at this plant, out of control unit managers, that care zero about employee safety, moral, plant procedure or respect. They are do as I say not as I do type of managers. They think the safety rules don't apply to them and plant procedure doesn't either. They routinely break both of them.

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