Toxic Culture -- Dying Industry - Engineer Sappi Employee Review

2.0
Mar 25, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People are relatively nice, benefits are decent

Cons

Culture is toxic, militaristic management structure and lack of focus on people needs especially in tough times. Expectation to work all the time and pay doesn't always reflect level of work

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5.0
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Pros

Kind co-workers and good hands-on experience.

Cons

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2.0
Apr 4, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Decent entry level pay for newly graduated mechanical engineer as a reliability engineer -Operations-Maintenance coordination has some improvements, not sure if they will stick

Cons

-Cloquet mill is very disorganized and chaotic -Near constant reactive "firefighting" operations -Maintenance department is not treated as a partner, but rather as a servant -Training in maintenance is a joke

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