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Generac Power Systems

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Generac Power Systems reviews

2.8

42% would recommend to a friend

(826 total reviews)
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Aaron Jagdfeld

57% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Generac Power Systems has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 826 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Generac Power Systems employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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826 reviews
3.0
Jun 27, 2016

Heavy-handed at the Top

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Pros

Baseline salary and benefits are pretty fair. Many updates to the facilities in recent years makes it a very comfortable environment.

Cons

Many silos and little collaboration between departments ... everyone has their own agenda. Executives are a bottleneck in getting things done and are out of touch with the current market.

2.0
Jan 12, 2016

Supervisor

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Pros

Nice people. Decent benefits. Quarterly bonus structure. HR manages benefits internally (not outsourced) - so they're available onsite to assist with questions.

Cons

Unrealistic expectations. More concerned about hitting deadlines so upper management gets their bonuses than the actual success of a project. Although it's been a publicly held company for a while, it's still very much in transition. The company has an extremely aggressive growth plan but is lacking basic fundamentals to get them there. Small company mindset - they don't even realize what they don't know. Expected to constantly travel between plants without any kind of reimbursement. Micromanagement at all levels, even the executive level. Not open to flexible work options (working remote).

1.0
Jul 23, 2015

Run Away

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Pros

It is located in Waukesha

Cons

The only people in the organization who count are the executive team even though one of Generac's touted values is "People". Everyone else is not smart enough to have good ideas and is mocked and belittled in large meetings by the elite executive team . I have a very large log of all the stupid things I have been told to do that contradict common sense. As was stated in another review "check your brain at the door" because you don't get to use it.

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