Domtar reviews

3.0

50% would recommend to a friend

(579 total reviews)
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John D. Williams

6% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

Domtar has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 579 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Domtar 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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1.0
Mar 17, 2017

Finance

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A lot of the employees are very nice, hardworking and professional (not the HR staff though) and probably deserve to be treated better than they are here.

Cons

Terrible management-childish, irresponsible, horrible CEO and doing some very seedy things. Management and HR make the work environment unbearable. Distrustful workplace as there are cameras filming the staff and CEO has advised that everyone is constantly being watched. Every thing anyone does is undermined by upper management and their constant jockeying for power. The employees there mean nothing to them but deserve way better than the leadership can offer. Please don't work here...

1.0
Feb 19, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

There are genuinely good people working there.

Cons

Expect the following: - Lateness/mess in employee administration, confusion in hiring and payroll (the worst workplace in this regard, in my personal experience). - Incredibly poor onboarding system for such a vast and multisites workplace - An incredibly toxic HQ work culture (e.g. blatant priviliges/favouritism, paranoia/distrusts/rivalries between managers/leadership, unclear managerial structures) - High turnover. Some people do work here for a long time, but those people will be the ones to tell you that they are not surprised why people would leave the company. - Unwillingness to reflect on a very poor working culture and infrastructural ineffectiveness, let alone change, improve, and innovate as a workplace. Relies on employees to adapt (suck up) to the inadequate working environment.

1.0
Aug 7, 2021

Most unprofessional company

Recommend
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Pros

- Remote work option available - Get paid on time and can bank hours to use another days - Easy interviews and hiring process

Cons

- Senior staff hired having no experience therefore they are lost and yell at employees at all the time - No training, no directions provided to staff and they are equally lost - change policies and procedures every payroll processing - No job security, judgmental, only see half empty and negative senior staff - Payroll department many don't have PCP or any experience and senior employees who approve work have NO experience processing payroll

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