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Watlow Electric Manufacturing

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Watlow Electric Manufacturing reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(212 total reviews)
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Rob Gilmore

72% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Watlow Electric Manufacturing has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 212 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Watlow Electric Manufacturing 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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212 reviews
1.0
Nov 12, 2014

Engineer that escaped a sinking ship

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Pros

my employees are great ad really bend over backwards to get work done. The company has a personal, positive view of itself.

Cons

Raises are standard and now all the same. If you do great or poor you all get the same. The wonderful 2% increase. Health coverage is expensive at 3,000 deduct for single and 6,000 for family. We shuffle issues around until everyone forgets the problem and sucks it up to accept it will never be worked on. We focus on personal pet projects and not tough issues

1.0
Aug 20, 2014

They really don't care

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Pros

I like most of my co-works and I really thought my last supervisor was cool to have. I like our facility meetings that explain the business and the future outlook. I like our CI and Customer Service team. They come down and help us if needed and listen to our problems and help us the best they can.

Cons

This place has no incentive to do good. You all get the same raise now. That same raise the last few years has been very weak. This company claims to never make money. Its a good or bad year they tell us that there is no money and they need what they have to invest in new projects. I have never worked for a company that can say it was the best year they have ever had but we have no money in the same speech. The only problem is the new projects are personal pet projects. If your looking for management to listen to you and help fix the problems you have on the line. You might want to keep looking for another company. They want to hear it, and ask for it, but if it requires more than that to get it solved- forget it then. We have a weird system in this facility management naming . My supervisor has a department boss called a Value Leader . This guy doesn't do anything unless its his idea or his way. He asked for my opinion and didn't even listen to it. In the end he had the answer and asked the team to pretty much say this was the best option. No one liked the idea and if he ever worked with us on the floor he would know it couldn't be done like he wanted. If this was a normal job, I would say that's the business. BUT this company stresses, "Oh listen to the employees" and "they do the job and know the best solution." This guy talks the talk, but fails to walk the walk. I liked the last few managers we use to have. This guy makes excuses for everything if we want something fixed too. He always has time and people and money for his projects but never for anyone else's. If you want to improve something in your area you might want to bring your own stuff from home since you'll never get it. I've been working on the same broken equipment since I started here. I guess it never made the fix list. I know the production numbers will make the list though, broken equipment or not. Our HR system is a Joke X10. We have no help or support except for 1 very nice lady that everyone likes because she always smiles and helps you. The other 3 in that office are useless to everyone. The Turn-over is terrible in our facility and the only answer that is given is "oh well". The expensive benefits and low pay are a big part of it. They don't want to hear it because they want to believe the location or the skill level of the job is making people leave. Pay people better or better benefits - No, that can't be the reason, we just have a poor location for people to travel to. For my last thought on this place. I had vacation saved up and wanted an out of the country type vacation. So I asked for 3 weeks and was told no because others were off a few days in that time frame. It's 3 weeks. When am I going to find a time with no one off during 3 weeks of time. Who wrote some of these awesome reviews on this company. Maybe the date has to do something with it. I see it's getting worse each year and maybe back then it was better It sounds like the owners of the company wrote those great reviews. I bet less than 1 out of 10 on the lines would give it over 2 stars best case.

3.0
Aug 15, 2014

Watlow Ups and Downs

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Here are some of my experiences and views at Watlow: - Okay Benefits - Family Orientated - Overtime - Employees mostly care about their jobs and what to build a great product

Cons

- To get anywhere in this company it is "who you know" kind of thing - Raises suck! And when you get a raise you end up paying more for you benefits anyways - Too many chiefs and not enough Indians - One piece Flow slows the heck out of the process. They say its faster, but they just change the numbers to make it look like we are doing better then we were. Quality has gone down also, less time to inspect. - "Testing is non value added" I think that the customer is pay for a good board.

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