Bridgestone Americas reviews

- Management preaches innovation to employees, but is not interested unless there is zero associated cost. - Many factories use decades-old equipment, which limits the ability to innovate and improve the product. - Promotions are heavily influenced by inter-office politics. - Very heavy job rotation among management and employees. This results in a reduction of deep knowledge of the product. It also results in additional resources spent getting employees and managers up-to-speed in their new departments. - Middle management is out of the office ~30-40% of the time, often on boondoggles. This often makes it difficult to get a decision/approval. It also foments resentment among the employees. - Too many meetings and reports. - Information Technology is understaffed/underfunded. As a result, new employees wait up to a week to get setup with a computer. Broken equipment can take months to replace unless expedited by management. Common software, such as Microsoft Office is 2+ generations behind what is currently available. - Senior management is filled by people with no tire industry experience. They have experience with commodities such as facial tissues and breakfast cereal, and they are treating tires the same way.

No growth opportunities. Managers do not know how to manage the business. Managers do not know how to manage their people. Management does not know how to run a business and I anticipate the facility I am at to be financially insolvent by the time they are done. Management hides the truth and manipulates the numbers. HR does not have succession plan making it very hard to know what options are available for growth and opportunities. Management gives preferential treatment to their legacy department and doesn't open their eyes and see the truth l. Everything is now, now, now. No planning at all. Corporate does not know how to be a resource or aid the facilities. They have never worked on the floor and they are the experts and dictators. Ask them to adjust and understand the facilities and they don't care. No accountability and credibility for corporate and site leadership. Inadequate planning and scheduling. There fix to everything is to reengineer it and not to understand what the root cause is. Lack of transparency. Too many meetings with no agenda and action items to follow up on.