STAY AWAAAAAAAY! - Anonymous employee Rain Bird Employee Review

Management is poor. They are immature, inept, timid, deceitful and cruel towards people. It is a top-down, micro managed company. Le Fetra runs it like a prison, and his directors are the bully guards. You learn to shut up and avert your eyes or you get pulled out of line and beaten, (figuratively, of course). You have no decision making power, and no ability to influence plans. You are a clerk. RB thinks it is an entrepreneurial environment where performance determines growth. The exact 180 degree opposite is true. Directors Bergantino and Elezaby are laughing stocks, although they ruin so many people that everyone is afraid and submissive when they are around., (which really pleases them). They would not last 6 months in a real company. Sad really, pathetic losers with power. A few directors are good but most are not. Pay is good by Tucson standards, but only so so in the national market. If you are being recruited to RB, you are probably very very good. Confident in yourself, you will think "I will succeed here even though it sounds like a tough place." We all thought that. We are all very very good too. Reality: you will fail, but not because of anything YOU do. So, DO NOT BUY A HOUSE HERE. We all would leave if we could, but the rotten economy and our inability to sell our homes keeps us here. Engineering is decimated, and much of the knowledge that built the company has been lost Sales is a high turnover area, with a few old pros who hang on, grateful they are in the field and out of sight of management Marketing is in constant turmoil and almost nobody has tenure over there either. Manufacturing is so so, very inconsistent. HR? Well, the good ones leave in a hurry, horrified. The rest are really just meat processors. Purchasing? there isn't a purchasing function! If you think you must come here, talk to a few ex Rain Birders first. There are many of them. Try linked in