Dematic reviews

There is lots of travel, and it is usually to the middle of no where for the job site. This means long trips and long hours on these trips. There is an underlying feeling that the company does not care for the individual employees. There is also concern as they move engineering and manufacturing more internationally. Currently there is a major concern as we see our customers shifting to the competition due to manufacturing delays.

The company is heavily partitioned (or silo-ed) such that two people sitting next to each other in the same department don't know what it is the other does, nor does each person know what happens with the work product she/he receives or produces. Dematic wants soldiers or robots. Don't question why, just do and die. Don't expect to make a significant impact or exercise your brain. Dematic may be a good company for "business" people (i.e. those supporting roles such as accounting, finance, management), but for those whose job it is to execute projects for customers it's not a good atmosphere; not creative, not exciting, not requiring much brain power. Example, Dematic has removed (pre-engineered) much of the engineering from its conveyor product lines. In practice engineers take pre-engineered "blocks" to create drawings, code etc. It's not all this way, but it speaks of the Dematic culture.