Good at the top, good at the bottom, crud in between - Anonymous employee Xyratex Employee Review

2.0
Sep 24, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Cutting edge projects starting at ideas creation through to implementation. Great people to work with day to day, I miss my old team.

Cons

There is an ethos in line management of knowledge being power. Information stops in the middle, I know it comes from the top and then simply stops in the mind of the middle manager. These same middle managers take the ideas of staff, rubbish them, and then present them as their own. The kind of attitude that makes politicians look honest.

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5.0
Jan 10, 2022
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Dec 16, 2009
Anonymous employee
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Pros

For technical jobs, the opportunity to be involved in the development of a very exciting technology and state of the art products, strong benefit package, work with some talented people,

Cons

Lack of strong management, sweatshop mentality, very sad lack of overall direction for company and divisions within company, very poor communication to workforce, poor treatment of line employees and professional workforce by majority of managers. Often one hand does not know what the other is doing. Very political environment has created an environment of general fear of speaking out which curtails creativity at many levels. The general knowledge that once a product is developed it will be off shored to the Malaysia manufacturing site. Vested ownership of engineering is difficult if not impossible in this scenario.

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