Hunter Industries reviews

4.1

90% would recommend to a friend

(212 total reviews)
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Greg Hunter

94% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Hunter Industries has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 212 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Hunter Industries 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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4.0
Sep 13, 2010

Wonderful place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

a vast majority of the employees i worked with were friendly and seemed to enjoy being there. the work environment was warm and welcoming. as well as others were willing to help new employees get acclimated.

Cons

the only issue i noticed is that communication between departments could be a bit more coordinated and project circulation could be systematized a bit better.

2.0
Jul 19, 2009
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Pros

The best reason to work at Hunter Industries is if you are a self-starter, and you someone that wants to promote self-growth and personal career development. The best part of Hunter Industries is that you will get to watch your ideas and plans come into fruition and will be aggressively pushed by mid-management as part of their own personal agenda. Upper management will never know of your contributions or responsibility for the introduction of the new ideas and concepts; therefore you are insulated from upper management as a result of this culture. Middle management "empowers" the workers by allowing someone to do all of the feasibility, research, and risk analysis. Once again, Hunter Industries is great for allowing you to do this. I would never have been able to make it to my current career level without the help of Hunter Industries middle management. The corporate lifestyle is interesting as well. Let's face it, anyone that has worked there truly appreciates the profit-sharing program. After all, December is great because your low wages are subsidized by all of your hard work during the calendar year. I chose to look at it as a "personal savings program."

Cons

The downside of employment at Hunter Industries is the lack of worker appreciation, promotions, and most of all the ability to have a normal family life. Not many places will force someone to come into work within three hours of their wife giving birth to their new baby, but the Hunter Industries I.T. Department will. There is not a single department within the corporation that has not acted in this manner. Whether it is the Engineering Department with the passing of an immediate family member, Sales Department when someone admits they have a chemical dependency issue, etc. The list is long yet distinguished. Personal vendettas are the Achilles heel within the deeply entrenched middle management staff. Anyone that has worked there has to admit that "middle management runs the company." While this phenomenon is interesting from a case study standpoint being semi-militaristic and all but; is only in practice because upper management is never allowed to create or even have a relationship within the work environment of the subordinates below these managers.

1.0
May 14, 2009
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Pros

The best reason to work for Hunter Industries is if you cannot find a good job and this is all you can get. It is a manufacturing plant with a lot of employees and they hire and fire on a whim and without fore-thought. Not even the VPs are safe. It's not the economy it has been like that for a decade. If you know how to keep your head down and you don't want to get promoted, you can work there for a long time and no one will notice that you accomplish very little because that might cause someone to scrutinize how little they themselves do.

Cons

There is a crazy amount of turn-over. Every few months another executive gets fired. They churn employees all the time. They look to pay the lowest possible wages and get you to work tons of hours. The due to the turn-over you constantly interact with managers with little understanding of their responsibilities and jobs. Smart, career-minded people don't last long here. Only the fools survive. The president is so uninvolved and misinformed on what is really happening in the plant, we get some of the stupidest requests. Then when he hears about people having disagreements, he just fires the lot. No wonder the sales are way down. There are no experienced salesmen and support staff left.

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