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Crestron Electronics

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Crestron Electronics reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(516 total reviews)

Daniel Feldstein

68% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Crestron Electronics has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 516 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Crestron Electronics 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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516 reviews
2.0
Jul 5, 2018

Declining by degrees

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Still the leading innovator in end-to-end residential and workplace technology. Long time, dedicated and loyal employees are like family. But...

Cons

...the old family is thinning. Hiring upper levels from outside has won favor over internal promotion. CEO thinks he is the world’s greatest businessman (he is good, no doubt) but he has absolutely atrocious leadership skills. The cult of personality visionaries are all dead, gone, or silent these days. It’s a vacuum of inspiration. If you work anywhere other than HQ, be prepared to be considered a second rate citizen CFO sets ridiculous growth goals ignoring intelligently prepared forecasts. Keeps the carrots just out of reach. CEO is impatient and impetuous. He’ll make sweeping changes at the beginning of the fiscal. Those changes take six months to ring out leaving everyone scrambling to meet goals towards the end of the next fiscal; invariably falling short. Rinse, repeat the next year. Everyone is growing quite tired of the fire drills. CEO accepts zero ownership for not meeting his own targets. He’s a one-trick pony who only knows how to berate and blame the smartest and hardest working sales team in the industry.

1.0
Nov 7, 2019

Rapidly Increasing Toxicity

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Pros

The company still has a fair amount of ‘good reputation’ runway to exhaust.

Cons

Keep your nose down. Stay in your lane. See something egregious that will harm the company that’s in the adjacent lane? Shut up. Check your boxes. Drone on. What was once a terrific familial environment where everyone had everyone’s back to “do what’s best for Crestron” has become a toxic siloed culture of CYA. Garbage employees who game the metrics are enshrined. At 25+ years, the CEO is clearly well beyond his peak and is now insulated by ‘yes’ men. Completely out of touch. Nepotism is rampant. CFO is FAR too involved in operational decisions. COO is entirely absent. CTO is tragically an almost nonexistent presence anymore (at a technology company). Every day feels like a new corporate ‘vision’ was born in the CEO’s bowl of Alphabits cereal; completely scrapping yesterday’s vision. All reactive all the time with zero patience for efforts to take root. Feels like the ship is rudderless at full throttle and we’re trying to convince the market that our erratic movements are those of a nimble and responsive authority. It’s utterly exhausting. But hey, there’s a gym on campus!

2.0
Jul 21, 2018

Ruined by recent corporate cronyism

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are a lot of smart and talented people that works here.

Cons

Recent obvious corporate cronyism/favoritism places testing above real product development. Don't get me wrong, testing is important, but when real product development have a hard time getting approval for expenses to do their job but testing is approved for anything and everything under the sun something is wrong.

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