Spirax Sarco reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(309 total reviews)
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Nick Anderson

76% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Spirax Sarco has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 309 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Spirax Sarco 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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309 reviews
2.0
Sep 13, 2015

Better than no job

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Not slave drivers. Most people leave at 5:00 pm daily. Pay is very good if negotiated prior to taking job.

Cons

Lorrain Wiseman President for past two years. Had her own agenda when she was hired by the board. Has created an environment of intimidation and manages that way. Has run-off much of the technical expertise or gotten rid of. Promoted personnel not qualified for the positions. Hired or promoted females based upon her feminist views. Never hired a VP of Sales and Marketing. Sales runs the show. No engineering department, no real technical service, quality, no R&D. Weak marketing VP, not enough personnel in product management, app engineering, or marketing. HR, Accounting, and IT get all the resources they require and hire accordingly. Directors and sales managers tell the President everything she wants to hear and are afraid to say that " the emperor wears no clothes". Unbelievable that the UK allows this to happen. Just don't get on your manager's bad side. Most manager's there have been there almost their whole career. They are completely oblivious to how other companies actually operate or manage their businesses. Mediocre products, three times the price of their competitors, arrogance to really believe that they can grow????

1.0
Aug 10, 2015

Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Some of the people were good to work with, a few Friends.

Cons

The majority of the people, greater than 80 percent were absolutely incompetent, and completely useless. Spirax definitely loves the gutless, spineless incompetent yes man. They have perfected this concept. I have never met a more incompetent and useless bunch of people. Somehow they manage to find the most useless an incompetent person and put them in charge. There is absolutely no leadership or management any where at Spirax. Spirax is largely a sales, marketing and distribution company. They have been selling the same products with no changes for the last 50 years or more. There is no development, engineering or innovation at all whatsoever at Spirax. They don't understand engineering, product development or innovation. Very few people at Spirax understand fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, basic physics and engineering. The sales guys, most of which don't posses engineering degrees understand more than the degreed engineers. How sad is that ! You have been warned, stay away

1.0
Dec 20, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Solid and diverse customer base for a stable sales network. Customers are forgiving because they like the quality of the products.

Cons

VERY political! If you are not willing to fall in line with the top BS'ers you are on the outside and never invited back in so if you are someone that holds onto your values and not bend over find another company.

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