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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).

Reviews by job title

867 reviews
1.0
Dec 17, 2019

Chicago Gangster Style of Management

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Not many worth mentioning relative to the upside of working for the company. Responsive HR employees to administrative issues. Honest attempt by HR and lower tier management to seek employee feedback.

Cons

Hah. Where to start. First if all, the company does not match salary expectations with the cost of living for the local geographic area where the site is located. Upper management seems uninterested in the care and concern for employees in regard to safety and welfare. As long as the product is loaded and shipped, not much else matters. Absolutely no training for new management employees as they are left to run an operation they know little about. When approached, management has no interest in training new supervisors and leaves them to be pounced on by a lynch mob of employees that do nothing but complain about their jobs. Mistakes are met with threats instead of constructive feedback and coaching like you find in a professional environment. Health plans mysteriously vanish from year to year only to force employees on to a more expensive plan they don't want or won't use. Management interaction with employees was minimal at times with managers sitting in their offices watching numbers fluctuate from day to day. Upper management very unreceptive to new ideas and suggestions to improve process.

2.0
Sep 9, 2017

Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People on the plant floor bust their butts to make a quality product and make production numbers.

Cons

Pactiv has ceased 90% of their quality assurance programs & PM programs along with leaving equipment down because "the parts are not in the budget to repair the machine" all because they "need to reduce operating costs"! The name of the game is not to save money, the name of the game is to make money! you can't make money with poor quality and broken machines. Management is taking the tools away from the production workers!

1.0
Apr 12, 2017

Finance

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

a job with benefits that are good, but expensive

Cons

Lack of stability,no long term goals,complete disconnect with field. Even the benefits are run by a 3rd party same with 401 k are their service is horrible. Favoritism, people of color and females need not apply. The policy is 3 years and hire new employees no long term employees, unless you're a good old boy or friends with the good old boy. Bully mentality

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