Georgia-Pacific reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(3,050 total reviews)
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David Duncan

85% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Georgia-Pacific has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,050 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Georgia-Pacific 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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2.0
Mar 5, 2011

Struggling with Cultural Change

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are a lot of great people who work for the company. Many of them have worked for the company for decades, and have a lot of great knowledge and experience. They truly want to do the right thing and work towards making the company better, but senior management routinely gets in the way. Ability to maintain a good work life balance was good.

Cons

I have never heard so many complaints about compensation as I have while working for Georgia Pacific. Many hard working people who are truly adding value to the organization go years without a raise. For those who are able to garner a raise, it takes months and months with many challenges to get approvals. Bonuses are very hard to come by. (I have not seen one in years.) Medical benefits are meager. The implementation of the MBM tenets is sadly derailed. The talk and the actions are regularly completely opposite of each other. I would not be surprised if they see an exodus of employees as the economy improves. Also be prepared to be routinely bombarded with the Koch libertarian political perspective.

2.0
Nov 16, 2010
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Pros

Good hard co-workers who care about the products and services produced. Brand loyalty and recognition. Strategicaly aligned facilties with vast of product mix that is accepted and well thought of in the market place.

Cons

The Koch philosophy of the MBM Guiding principles and upper Management's interpretation has destroyed employee morale, created divisions within the organization and allow upper Mangement to build their "inner circle" to insulate themselves from the organization. New philosophy is to pass the blame down and not be accountable. Upper Mgmt only practices the MBM framework when it works in their favor and one of the five attributes-Knowledge Processes- Buyer beware when positvely trying to "challange ideas". To much corruption from all the Gray area left to be interpreted. Too many acrynyms used to sound smarter then offering a solution instead of a nice 3 letter name! Ship is sailed out to sea and the Captains seem to be arguing over the "decision rights" to try to turn it around while the Mother ship(Koch) is bleeding it for profit before they sell the ship to the junk yard for scrap metal.

1.0
Aug 8, 2010

Very Poor Senior Management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great co-workers and good benefits.

Cons

Very poor management. Very set in their ways. A good 'old boy and gal network.

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