Milwaukee Tool reviews

About a year and a half ago the company made some very bad decisions. People got let go that were change agents and challenged the cultural decline that was happening. People got promoted to levels they were not competent in just because they were favored by some. Everything has now become about individual advancement and not a team effort to win in the market place. The face the organization puts on to the press and their customers is 180 degrees different than what the internal culture is. Instead of trying to change the culture (which will be hard now that the cultural drivers were let go the past few years) they search out those to talk bad about them and squelch their voices. They monitor these reviews and try to figure out who is writing them...I'm guessing they even ask or require some of employees to write favorable reviews to offset the bad ones. This is they type of organization and leadership they have become.

Work/life balance is not very good. To promote you almost always have to move. If you keep turning down promotions you will end up blacklisted, forced out or fired. All sales positions have low base pay. Only receive a 5K raise for each promotion. Very aggressive bonus structures are paid out annually only (zero commission). If you do not hit your bonus at the end of year you get nothing. Only cost of living raises. All markets receive same compensation. The company is growing very fast but we do not get compensated more. Constant turnover hurts our reputation at the distributor and end user level.