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.
