Black Diamond reviews

3.4

46% would recommend to a friend

(156 total reviews)

John Walbrecht

30% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Black Diamond has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 156 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Black Diamond 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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156 reviews
1.0
Aug 12, 2015

Toxic Morale

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great fellow co-workers. Having dogs in the office a welcome stress reliever.

Cons

This may have changed by now, but a couple years ago upper management was terrible. Backhanded manuevers. Glad-handing. Heavy cronyism. BD was hiring tons of managers...not people to actually do the work. Very little promotion from within. Since I've been gone seems like people are abandoning ship at alarming rates. Pay isn't great. They try to sell you "the lifestyle," but the office is in a very undesiralbe neighborhood in SLC, which in and of itself is a "weird" at best place to live. At the end I was working 55 hour weeks to keep up and hating life. Was frustrating to see good things the brand had done getting neglected. Built a brand new state of the art ski factory in 2012...Armada was just at it buying presses, etc. like an estate sale. Sure, bad winters the last few, but BD was trying to market the ski biz like their climbing biz and too snobby to see that they are different beasts. At least Atomic is making their skis now...might not suck as bad.

2.0
Jul 3, 2015

Grain of salt

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Casual environment; Great location; Good benefits

Cons

Extreme lack of management skills; Rarely promoting within; Company built on constant meetings about meetings; Wrong people in the wrong positions

2.0
Jun 30, 2015

Merchindiser

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Black Diamond has an amazing work play balance, I never had any problems getting time off to ski or go on trips. Good benefits and fun people to work with

Cons

The company seemed to be in a transition phase witch left many people feeling like the management was not doing a great job. It also also near impossible to work up in the company and get promoted

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