Woodward reviews

This is a company that preaches about work life balance yet their expectation is the opposite. They promote and tolerate incompetence at all levels, more so since Chip Blankenship took over. Those that do work and are good, end up leaving for better pay, better hours, or actual work life balance. They rely on their excellent benefits to offset everything else like their poor pay and the poor work culture. As a line worker, you offer ideas to improve the process or point out issues with tools and improvements that need to be made, you’re ignored. The engineers are the only ones most of value stream managers listen to.

This company is in chaos and working their employees to death. Very outdated business model that struggles to keep up with the modern world. Extremely high stress environment. This “do whatever it takes” mentality does not translate into improving their falling product quality, but is actually code for “we expect you to work until you drop”. People leave due to stress-related illness and mental and physical burnout. Management is poor and leads by intimidation and thinly-veiled threats. They get away with it because northern Colorado does not have much in the way of jobs and Denver is too far away. All aspects of work are made excessively difficult due to a lack of critical thinking and a hive mentality. If you challenge this in even the smallest way you will be crushed. This company is struggling with quality issues and lack of planning to deliver products on time and their answer is adding unbelievable layers of executive management and instituting company-wide improvement, classroom -style, programs that do nothing at all about the quality problems. Their True North initiative blames the employee for not dedicating themselves sufficiently and accuses all of not being engaged. Totally useless program. Engineers are frustrated because no one pays attention to what they know and push out product that oftentimes does not have a prayer of working properly partly because of design issues that are not addressed as they should be. Human Resources is useless and so siloed good luck finding out anything. Cross training is not allowed here, nor do they make it easy to move into another position to move your career forward or in a new direction. Overall the experience here does not come close to its reputation.