Good Pay, Bad Culture, Below average benefits - Category Manager J.B. Poindexter Employee Review

1.0
Oct 18, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Company offers great salary pay, above market. Provides below average insurance that will balance out. Privately owned. Hybrid work schedule. However. not indefinite, owner of company wants to see employees working at their desk.

Cons

Culture is a huge problem here. The company continues to operate very old fashion. When I joined the company, everyone was required to work the extra 30 minutes 8AM to 530PM. During peak covid-19, people were still forced to come in. The owner wants to see employees at their desk, and will assigned HR to walk around with a clipboard for head count. If you are not at your desk you will receive a call or email. When the mass turnover hit, that's when the company decided to go to a hybrid schedule, realizing that people are leaving, the company started to buy breakfast to help improve culture. During townhalls the owner would let everyone know who was fired because of poor performances at each business. There has been complete turn over in the supply chain department, no strategy except to beat suppliers down for cost savings. Many new directors that are micromanagers and definitely not experienced. However, New CPO in place this year, maybe the strategy will change.

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5.0
Feb 6, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jan 21, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very corporate and most people are nice.

Cons

Terrible processes for accessing data and tools and they ask people to work 5 days at office while some other workers work remotely (unfair).

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