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Dinosaur With Poor Management - Anonymous employee Watts Water Technologies Employee Review

1.0
Aug 31, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

After many years of peeling wallpaper and dirty torn carpets, they're finally doing the place over.

Cons

This dinosaur of a company boasts many managers who have worked here more than 20 years and never anywhere else. It shows. There is a high-school mentality here, and everyone is afraid of being laid off if they displease the management in any minor way. Consequently, good talent leaves and the old-timers who are left are mostly incompetent. Managers here micro-manage. Do individual thinking and your ideas will be ignored. Projects are mis-managed, and there is confusion on company direction at the lower levels. Managers give a million conflicting orders and things end up being done in a way that doesn’t say “modern company” or even efficient. Projects are not managed creatively by a team, but orders are handed down to teams dictating how things should be done. And you are called on the carpet if you don’t do them that way. No creative thinking allowed. The atmosphere at this old-boy company is especially toxic to women, and women who succeed must act like the boys or risk being terminated. Even acting like this may not help preserve their positions. There is no training available to employees at the lower levels, but much money is spent on junkets for upper management. There is no such thing as professional development. There is little recognition for a job well done. Conservative, conservative, conservative. Look elsewhere for a job, and you’ll be happier.

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Watts Water Technologies Response
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We are sorry that your experience at Watts has not yet matched our intention. We will use this feedback, like we do with all positive and negative feedback, to continually improve our employees' experience. Using feedback like this we have evaluated some of our practices and made changes where necessary and are continuing to do so. Please do not hesitate to reach out to your manager or HR Business Partner with these concerns.

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Cons

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Cons

There’s no type of support or process documentation in place which is baffling since this company has been around for over a century. You have to jump through hoops and red tape in order to simplify or automate tasks. Also, management always wants control over things which can get frustrating. They don’t allow you to give ideas at all. They’ll state that they “hear you” but they don’t at all. Their systems are not the best whatsoever. Health insurance premiums are awful. They only offer HSA or PPO and the PPO is ridiculously expensive. I also feel like there’s zero culture. I was there for 12+ months and I barely knew management or coworkers on a personal level. Some departments are super siloed so it’s difficult to have conversations with people and get to know one another.

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