Who you know - Packaging Engineer Georgia-Pacific Employee Review

1.0
Mar 26, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits: great 401k match Health insurance

Cons

Moving up is who you know and kissing ass and not based on performance. Also you're more likely to move up first you're male & white Focus is on all the wrong things. High level of favoritism, pettiness, politics & bureaucracy MBM is used as a weapon 100,000% of the time. Sometimes it's almost occultish. A culture that will eventually not work because they refuse to move with the changes of the world GP packaging may not last long; all sales rep do is maintain old accounts and not get new accounts They talk of challenging the process but that only applies to management. If you're at the bottom don't try to challenge just hush & get your money

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Expectations and priorities frequently changed without corresponding adjustments to workload. Performance feedback lacked important operational context, such as competing priorities, project reassignment, and resource constraints. Communication tended to favor frequent meetings over clear written expectations. Accommodation requests and communication support were difficult to navigate and lacked a clear process. Single-engineer staffing model creates a challenging environment for vacations, medical appointments, training, and long-term sustainability. Heavy emphasis on immediate deliverables can make long-term engineering work and root-cause analysis difficult.

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