PPG reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(2,646 total reviews)
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Timothy M. Knavish

75% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

PPG has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,646 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PPG employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Jun 12, 2014

Glidden Division

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent base pay, ok benefits, company car.

Cons

Bonus is a terrible, upper management has no clue what they are doing. Every week your goals change and you can never get in a groove, especially when you're told you need to work from 6 am to 6pm, then come home and do your paperwork. No I'm not kidding.

2.0
May 27, 2014

CSR

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

decent amount of time paid off international company

Cons

Strong corporate culture Terrible Management High degree of politics good employees get taken advantage of male dominated

2.0
Jan 8, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent opportunities for new positions and career changes so long as you don't mind situations where they have already selected a candidate rather than interviewing for one. Their shareholders love them! Buy PPG stock as it has been profitable and paid uninterrupted dividends for 130 years. I guess when they pinch the pennies out of their employees it affords them the ability to be profitable.

Cons

PPG suffers from many of the same tragedies as many of the big global corporations. Poor middle management who ride the success of their employees, a lot of overpaid dinosaurs who are protected by the good ole boy network, and senior management who get high returns on short term decisions with long term negative consequences. Salaries and bonuses are a joke to anyone who is not management. My best bonus in 5 years of working as a senior analyst for Corporate IT was 3% despite stellar reviews in my annual P&LP. The average was 1.5 %. I guess they figure that we get enough perks with our partner discounts ($5 off a gallon of Manor Hall paint and Aquapel windshield repellant at Christmas)! Raises are crap - typically less than cost of living increase. People work to the bone for nothing. A friend of mine lost his daughter to cancer and they pressured him to come back to work or else losing his job.

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