Heavily Structured Environment and Practices
Pros
A decent environment for new hires out of college to gain exposure to automation, however it's not a great learning environment long-term. If you enjoy or need structure, or want to become an institutional employee that learns the corporate way and only does the one thing then Dematic is a good place to work.
Cons
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.
