Hunter Industries - An "interesting" place to work - Anonymous employee Hunter Industries Employee Review

2.0
Jul 19, 2009
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The best reason to work at Hunter Industries is if you are a self-starter, and you someone that wants to promote self-growth and personal career development. The best part of Hunter Industries is that you will get to watch your ideas and plans come into fruition and will be aggressively pushed by mid-management as part of their own personal agenda. Upper management will never know of your contributions or responsibility for the introduction of the new ideas and concepts; therefore you are insulated from upper management as a result of this culture. Middle management "empowers" the workers by allowing someone to do all of the feasibility, research, and risk analysis. Once again, Hunter Industries is great for allowing you to do this. I would never have been able to make it to my current career level without the help of Hunter Industries middle management. The corporate lifestyle is interesting as well. Let's face it, anyone that has worked there truly appreciates the profit-sharing program. After all, December is great because your low wages are subsidized by all of your hard work during the calendar year. I chose to look at it as a "personal savings program."

Cons

The downside of employment at Hunter Industries is the lack of worker appreciation, promotions, and most of all the ability to have a normal family life. Not many places will force someone to come into work within three hours of their wife giving birth to their new baby, but the Hunter Industries I.T. Department will. There is not a single department within the corporation that has not acted in this manner. Whether it is the Engineering Department with the passing of an immediate family member, Sales Department when someone admits they have a chemical dependency issue, etc. The list is long yet distinguished. Personal vendettas are the Achilles heel within the deeply entrenched middle management staff. Anyone that has worked there has to admit that "middle management runs the company." While this phenomenon is interesting from a case study standpoint being semi-militaristic and all but; is only in practice because upper management is never allowed to create or even have a relationship within the work environment of the subordinates below these managers.

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Cons

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Hunter Industries Response
3mo
Thank you, IT Analyst!! We appreciate the time you took to provide feedback.
1.0
Mar 7, 2026
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Develop resilience, seek better opportunities!

Cons

SO MANY that it cannot be covered in one page even. CEO is likable but the senior, mid-low level management are not so good. They however operate to the cadence of the CEO. I have seen so far in my professional career. No professional etiquette, no empathy for its employees, They don't want assertive and productive employees; they want people who are desperate for employment workers and low in confidence. Pay is below market. Incentive is even worst, Out of guilt, they offer an annual bonus that’s about 10% of compensation and is driven by company performance. To offset many inefficient processes and lost revenue, they hire and tolerate low skilled workers. Managers are inexperienced, highly non-cooperative and not supportive. Employees who have committed decades of service were harassed and forced to leave. Your career flounder because your job duties are not likely to translate well, unless you’re an engineer, or a warehouse worker. Work/life balance is affected by working for a terrible manager.

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Hunter Industries Response
3mo
We understand that everyone's experience can be different, and we're sorry to hear that yours was negative. We take your concerns seriously. Please feel free to contact a Human Resources representative to discuss further, should you choose to do so.
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