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Pactiv Evergreen

Acquired by Novolex

Engaged Employer

Pactiv Evergreen reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(867 total reviews)

Mike King

57% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Pactiv Evergreen has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 867 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pactiv Evergreen 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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867 reviews
3.0
Apr 27, 2023

Too much bureaucracy

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, room for growth, flexibility to move around the company or across locations, attractive salary ranges and bonus structure. Good focus on communications and building employee friendly website to access information.

Cons

30+ Vice Presidents in the company- many power struggles and disagreements among them, making it very difficult to navigate across departments and actually accomplish anything. Very little organizational trust and everything requires too many layers of approval. Meetings to approve having meetings to assign people to lead meetings about meetings. I was on three calls with no less than 6 VPs to get approval on something the facility had already figured out. I usually have my projects more than halfway completed before they wind their way through the formal "process".

1.0
May 31, 2017

Master Planner

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent Benefits, exempt employees are easy come easy go, depending on the position - flexibility to work from home, cafeteria and gym on site at corporate office, and that's it

Cons

No proper manager to look up to, horrible paid time off - you have to work here for at least 5 years in order to get just 15 days off, sink or swim environment where unless you get incredibly lucky to have a good boss and a great team, good luck figuring out everything on your own, no proper training for almost every position, HR is absolutely terrible and is incredibly unhelpful, no mandatory training or awareness for Managers in any department to properly educate them about Federal and State laws on caregivers, paternity and maternity leave, sick elderly, childcare etc. Important life responsibilities are viewed as a big disadvantage and will be the reason why you won't advance. If you are not willing to take on your boss's and team workload and say you can do it all while working yourself to the bone - this is not the place for you... and if you are - don't count on being properly acknowledged for it

1.0
Mar 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay and Benefits are decent

Cons

Views people as disposable. Management is always changing, no consistency in direction. Most mid level Managers are long time friends or relatives of upper management.

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