Pros
- Mostly great co-workers. - Company sports leagues. - On site cafeteria/GYM. - In the right team, may be there is a chance to learn stuff while making less money. - Company/Job will be stable. - Not a bad company to work for if salary requirements are meagre and if the management chain is right but a few departments are pretty bad to work especially if you end with a over eager to please management all the time type of guy as a supervisor.
Cons
Where do I start? I debated for months to write this or not. After much deliberation I thought may be this will help someone who had options for picking his future job. Pardon the laundry list below. - Very Low pay. They will hire you way below market level which means 3 years of decent raises will still keep under the market value. Company mostly hires only young kids straight out of college. - Promotions come with minimal increases and a very nominal bonus every year and it entails a lot of work with underpaid and frustrated co-workers. - Bad/mediocre health benefits. - Web habits are monitored/restricted irrespective of productivity. Not just facebook but weather.com is also blocked. - Work hours are logged with no accountability for all the extra hours put in. - Every little thing is micro managed, including how clean your desk is at all times. - There are always Cost cutting measures or going with the cheaper option across the board irrespective of employee experience or growth for future with the tool. Ideas/opinions are given value accordingly to money they save/cost. - Management have a "buy-in" policy where they look people who are not outwardly drinking the company "cool-aid" all the time and try to nudge them out or peer shame them to fall in line. - The company keeps buying new companies every other month but still tells employees that they can only get minimal/no raises as everyone in the country is still in the middle of recession and we should be very happy that we just have a job. - If you are from the Dayton area then there is no choice but to stick with this company due to the job market in the area that the company is exploiting. But if you can move, please find work at a different company and I would say most of them will see that the grass is definitely greener than what you see at Reynolds. - FOX News on all TV's and at all times (including the fitness center). - Management tries to equate the "take less and work more" culture to what the armed forces go through everyday in their real life. Lastly, I cant believe the amount of positive reviews over the last year. This company was rated as one of the worst a few years ago and is close to respectable now. All the positive reviews are may be because most of the people might be working their first job and they have not seen anything else? I would not put it past the company to have their HR team intentionally give good reviews to shore up their rating.