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Heidelberg Materials

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Heidelberg Materials reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(950 total reviews)

Dominik von Achten

83% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Heidelberg Materials has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 950 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Heidelberg Materials 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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950 reviews
3.0
Oct 24, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits other than direct compensation are decent - Vision plan is great; medical and dental are better than average; vacation is average to above average. In general, many hardworking people in the company...many employees with 25+ years (however, often a product of the legacy companies). My work-life balance wasn't bad. There are promotion opportunities. Overall, it is a typical experience working for a large company.

Cons

Excessive focus on cost-cutting. Pay is below average. Participation in annual incentive plan (i.e. bonus) is somewhat arbitrary. Experience/perceptions of the company vary widely with location - company is not aligned. Formal training other than HR-focused is limited for front-line employees and mostly on-the -job.

3.0
May 26, 2015

Office

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits and good pay.

Cons

Upper management not very thoughtful of employees on the quarterly numbers.

1.0
Mar 17, 2015

Perfect job if you enjoy being miserable

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Engineering management is absent most of the time because they are located in a different state, so you are free to work without being micromanaged. That's really the only good thing about it.

Cons

Too many to list, but I'll name just a few. The management is absent, yet they seem to somehow be familiar enough with your job performance to say that it's only satisfactory, so you get minimal raises (maybe two raises every five years at 3% or less). Sales staff runs the company and is treated like royalty, and their mistakes and poor work ethic are constantly ignored by their supervisors despite being pointed out by everyone else in the company. The office is an old triple-wide trailer that is falling apart. In the almost six years that I worked there, two of the three a/c units didn't work for the last four years, there were roof leaks that poured water onto electrical outlets right next to workstations, and they were completely ignored. There were stray cats living under the building that would give birth to litters of kittens about every three months, and the kittens would die and stink up the building, but the management wouldn't even fix the boards to keep the cats from getting under there. This was absolutely the worst job ever, although I was able to stay there long enough to pay my bills. If that's all you care about in a job, then go for it!

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