Innospec reviews

3.6

56% would recommend to a friend

(110 total reviews)
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Patrick S. Williams

88% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Innospec has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 110 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Innospec 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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110 reviews
2.0
Mar 14, 2022

Stuck in the past

Recommend
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Pros

Salary is great, as well as an annual bonus scheme (not guaranteed). Other normal benefits such as private healthcare & decent pension contribution. Flexi working available with core hours, can be a bonus for those commuting and want to avoid traffic.

Cons

Despite there being over 400 people onsite, the office environment is quite cold, conservative & clinical with not much vibrancy. Social interaction is limited and in an unspoken way it is frowned upon. The company is adamant not to adopt a working from home set up, although it is trialing (like we haven't been in a global pandemic for 2 years) working from home 1 day a week. There is not much atmosphere within Innospec. This is very much a show up, do your job and go home company. With little culture, and lack of progressive attitudes I wouldn't recommend this workplace to someone who thrives in lively environment. There is no wifi or signal onsite. Also there's a tedious hold the handrail policy in place, and you will be pulled up by management and potentially given disciplinary measures if caught not holding the handrail whilst walking up and down the stairs.

1.0
Mar 21, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Bonus - (if you lick the right people's boots) Free car park (but don't drive too fast!) Some decent staff

Cons

Upper management clueless as to what goes on at floor level. If you're a favourite of the arrogant CEO you'll be fine. If not then there's nothing down for you. Took them 4 years to (attempt) to put in Microsoft dynamics AX to replace Oracle and they're now ditching that for SAP! But do the project team get the blame despite the project coming in millions of dollars over budget? No - because they contain the CEO's favourites. In the meantime they lost a few really good staff who ended up carrying the can for the project team's inadequacies.

2.0
Jul 24, 2012

Not fun.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free healthcare. Yep, zero premiums. Working for an oil company in a recession has benefits. Comfy office and nice co-workers. High pay is awesome.

Cons

Constant redirection, ensuring you can't get things done. Unrelenting stress about everything. It's all an emergency. If it isn't yet an emergency we will cut the time allotted in half to make it one. There are exactly zero 'second' priorities.

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