Ugh! This is Rough. - Anonymous employee Saint-Gobain Employee Review

2.0
May 19, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Environment is relaxed and understanding of your personal life. Pay is generous and supervisors readily allow time off to address medical or family needs, assuming that the time is made up.

Cons

This is not a team-oriented work place. We have departments of employees, each with their own very discrete job functions and rarely do they overlap with others in the same department. By observation, teamwork is something that exists in middle and senior management, but not on the shop floors or in the labs. Benefits are mediocre. Many are very old-hat and don't really appeal to a younger demographic. There is a lot of "walking knowledge" throughout the organization. Not much is written into policy or for any succession planning and that leaves us at a real loss. Succession planning appears "too scary" for anyone to address, or at least those I've asked, and as a result, nothing is done. The culture is reactive vs. proactive, and "do something, apologize later" vs. "ask permission to do something." Project management is very shoot-from-the-hip and slap-shot vs. carefully planned and orchestrated. Saint-Gobain uses WCM, but this site struggles to implement it in a meaningful way. Not many people here willing to "tell it how it is." We lack a certain strength in character

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Saint-Gobain Response
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Thank you for your honesty. We as group are working very hard to improve our communication, transparency and succession planning. The team is engaged and is very passionate about employee development and are doing their very best to provide direction, support and development for our employees. We have a great year ahead of us and have a lot of opportunities for learning and development. I would encourage you to speak with your manager to learn more. Again, thank you.

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