CoorsTek reviews

unintellectual team leaders,takes credit for others work, doesn't follow procedures, doesn't follow plant managers guidelines, basic corporate sabotage on their parts( team leaders)

The company seems fixated on maximizing profits - even at the expense of future growth. It generally views its customers as adversaries in pricing battles and seeks to deliver minimal quality standards. It spends meagerly on things like R&D, infrastructure and marketing. For a self-proclaimed “high-tech” company it rarely comes up with any thing innovative on its own. Management seems very risk adverse. Its growth model seems to be one of acquiring well-established and viable business then gutting them to maximize profits (wealth extraction). They apply a simplified one-size-fits-all management philosophy to all their businesses. This simplistic approach has resulted in failures of several business units and significant loss of market share in others. Their typical response to a business downturn is to immediately shed employees and increase prices (hardly a winning strategy for future growth). Wages for worker bees are well below average. They prefer to hire temporaries for manufacturing positions. At middle management/professional levels their salaries are mediocre at best. My suspicion is at the director and VP levels the compensation is considerably better. Nepotism is ever-present. There is a whiff of religion that finds its way into the culture (e.g. the company employs local church “chaplains” in lieu of an EAP). Communication within the company is virtually nonexistent.