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3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(2,396 total reviews)
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David Sewell

55% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

WestRock has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,396 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WestRock 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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2K reviews
2.0
Apr 15, 2014

Uncertain future

Anonymous employee
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Pros

In the past, high focus on employee development and quality of work was highly regarded.

Cons

Recent margin improvement program resulted in the elimination of hundreds of positions across the company with no consideration for level of talent being let go. People that are left are struggling to maintain the same quality of work with no support from management. Company appears to be leaning out the organization in an effort increase margins making it an attractive target for acquisition.

3.0
Apr 14, 2014

I expected more

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Pros

When I started there it was "THEE" place to work in our small town, and it was just MEAD. It was hard physical work but it came with good pay and great benefits. There was a great working atmosphere. I liked my job. Then they merged with Westvaco and it became just a job. After 20 years I left, I had become just a number, making about the same money I made 20 yrs before.

Cons

They pay you just enough to keep you, and they do not care about personally it is all about the bottom line. And I am not sure they can find the bottom line. So not only did I feel under appreciated I felt I worked for a company with no heart.

3.0
Apr 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and you can buy a week of vacation. If you are hired as a grade 16 or higher you will probably be happy in MWV because the higher grade you are the more you get paid and the less you have to work. Once you hit vice president you have it made.

Cons

No respect for the individual although it is one of the company's 4 important values. Everyone in the leadership is looking out for themselves only and how they can make more money and climb the ladder. They care little about the people making little money and they have no desire whatsoever to help a department that works so many extra hours with low salaries. They promote career development but in reality not much of that is going on. Hiring a person or two would show the leadership team cares, but they dont. Instead they keep paying lots of money to the ones that work very little. Recently the company had lay offs and many of them should have never been hired to start with as they obviously were never needed. Lots of manual non-automated processes due to SAP implementation. Little or no opportunties for anyone grade 14 or below. Lower grade employees seems to be thought of as transactional machines rather than humans with great growth potentials. Finally your yearly review is often just to tell you what you did wrong during the year and all the great things you did are hardly mentioned at all. This way they can limit your raise and bonus. This depends on who your manager is and what style they have.

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