Lot of talk not much substance - Anonymous employee McKinstry Employee Review

3.0
Jun 12, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits although they have been decreasing substantially over the years. Dean Allen is a great visionary. The "green idea" is a great for our world, if only they could get back to actually doing that. Seattle work environment is second to none.

Cons

Much of executive management and part of middle management actually belongs behind bars. Dean is a visionary genius but he has been extremely poor at picking management help in last 10 years. They have hired people from Siemens, Trane, etc. who learned to be crooks at those other corporations and have carried their ways back to McKinstry. McKinstry will fail and probably sooner rather than later. They have faced recent lawsuits and will most likely go down from other pending lawsuits or government investigations. DOJ, ODOD, IPUC etc. etc. will at some point put them out of business.

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Cons

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Pros

Decent salary and PTO policy Onsite gym for a fair monthly price Cool rooftop golf setup Nice little taco truck nearby outside

Cons

This place has extremely poor leadership and is very toxic at every level. Prepare to be micromanaged, ignored, gaslit, and shown zero empathy for heavy workload or personal emergencies by mediocre middle managers. Principals are checked out and are too busy creating new promotions for themselves and drinking wine at the CEO’s ranch. The bonus structure and profit sharing is laughable and a complete lie from what is listed on Workday. Annual raises aren’t even competitive to inflation. The C-suite executives are only focused on blatant nepotism for their own kids and relatives. HR puts people last and only cares about the company image (typical at most companies but they don’t even try to sugarcoat it). They force people to come in (3) days a week but they don’t even have enough parking. There is a cafe that sells mediocre food with typical expensive Seattle prices. The healthcare package is complicated, expensive, and relatively unknown to all providers. As a billion dollar company, they go cheap on the company holiday party and literally just host it at the office.

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