Nordson reviews

The company is managed poorly and the benefits are getting worse by the year. The culture portrayed by management makes it a bad place to work. A few years ago, the VP at the time gave a speech in front of the entire division that although Nordson stock was in a downturn, that everything was fine. He told everyone not to worry since everyone in adhesives division was doing everything right. Not two weeks later there were layoffs. Engineering Management thinks what they do is comparable to national security. Everything is so secretive here as if they were doing something far more important/exciting than melting glue and squirting it on boxes. The annual raises are terrible. There is no opportunity for growth. Most open positions posted in the company are considered a “lateral move” which just translates to not wanting to give you a raise. When they do post open positions, management already has a candidate pre-selected for the job but encourages employees to apply anyways. The decision was already made before the position was even posted publicly. The vacation policy was changed for the worse a few years ago. The medical insurance is expensive and carries an extremely high deductible. Employees go nearly bankrupt when they have to use the insurance. It's very apparent that every move they make is to cut costs to make shareholders happy, not the employees. In another effort to cut cost, they laid off Human Resources and are using a 1-800 service. Every two years there is an employee survey. Every time, the #1 complaint is low salary. Management is genuinely confused about how to satisfy their employees. Instead of giving better raises, they give an ice cream party. Or buys a Kuerig machine but won’t supply the k-cups and doesn’t understand why employees complain about it.

-The free coffee tastes like the poo coffee that Austin Powers drank. "It's a bit nutty." -Nordson Asymtek is the worst place that I've ever worked. If the company had a motto it would be "That's not my job" with a huge, motivating thumbs up after it. -It will forever be the laughing stock of companies that I will never work at again, even if they offered me quadruple pay. Yes, you read that correctly, I wouldn't work there for 4X the pay. It's THAT bad. -The line supervisors are people that started out at probably $8.00 an hour back in the day, and have never left. They don't do anything except sit at their computers and browse the web. I'm being completely honest, ask someone that works there. -Example: The company treats their employees so poorly, that while I was there, an employee took it upon themselves to purposefully clog the toilets so that black water would overflow the plant, and they were successful. For about a month, the toilets would randomly overflow, and maintenance had to be called out on a daily basis to fix it. My team and I worked with blackwater in our work areas... -Nordson Asymtek only hires temporary works. They do not outsource for permanent employees. Most people will work there for 2-5 years and only get offered full-time when they threaten to quit. Nordson has no problems loading you down with a rediculous work load, and giving you critical responsibilities that could cripple their work flow if you quit, but they do not have the respect to compensate you fairly in return. The reason being, because the company was sold and turned into a cashcow by a large corporation. -If you read this, you've been warned, lol. Go ahead, work there and see if I'm completely full of their coffee.