Hamilton Group reviews

It is interesting to see the reviews and compare current and former employees. Former employees might be a bit disgruntled but may speak more of the truth since current employees are 'asked' to write on this site while someone practically sits over their desk to compensate for the former employees reviews. If ever interested in a position, I would always try to link in with ex-staff in a similar department and connect with them to get a realistic point of view of why they left. As for my opinion of the Hamilton Company in Reno: 1. No ownership checks & balances As one of the reviews states ' power of one man,' that can say it all. As a private company there is basically one brother that runs it all and there is no professional board or oversight committee monitoring what goes on in Reno, this means 'whim' management. 2. Rampid cronyism & narcissistic tendencies Agreeing with a previous employee, if you are not in the 'like' or the in-crowd, continue looking over your shoulder. Certain staff continuing to dig into personal issues for other staff both inside and outside their departments to 'tell all' to ownership. There are bizarre rules like every employee, even salaried, must ID card swipe in every day to the Reno Office, if you are late by minutes more than a couple time a year your forfeit your cost of living raise. As for the field, we don't have to deal with any check in factors and get 'home' office time after so many days on the road, the Reno office staff has to timecard in the next day after travel even if they have worked the weekend and put in 60 hours already that week. 3. Growing pains and 'A Plan' Another interesting review was growth pains for staff, yes, when management doesn't listen to what their staffs needs and organizes by budget as opposed optimizing staff in high growth areas, it is painful. Again, no management has growth experience and involves staff to plan for growth or relays a plan to relieve the pain. 'Just Not In Time' staff management. 4. Lack of consolidated communicated company goals Interesting enough, ownership does not want staff to know sales numbers, growth numbers or plan numbers so instead they are told to work 50-60 hours a week to make bonus. Only the day after the year closes, they are told they didn't make it and no bonuses, great for morale. 5. Success from Switzerland It must be tough for the Swiss end of the company to continually have the best products they have spent years developing 'moved' over to Reno for manufacturing where Reno takes the income, profit and credit. So, as you can tell, I had worked for the company for a few years and had to hide all these facts from customers when they were buying equipment. The field staff is relatively 'sheltered' from the toxic insanity in the Reno office and now with more new management, more is rolling down hill to each employee that takes the time to learn how the company works. Ask someone that has been there before taking a position there...

The owner makes all decisions. Most privately held companies operate this way. However most owners usually understand the markets they are selling into. This owner does not and makes decisions "from the hip" Huge disfunction between departments High turnover rate