Difficult - Anonymous employee Sibelco Group Employee Review

1.0
Sep 8, 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pay is better than most other options in the area.

Cons

Constantly changing objectives. Objectives that came from the CEO led to cutting staff and pushing tonnage over quality. Surprise surprise customers are not happy with the quality of the product. There was an opportunity to capitalize on all time highs in demand of high purity quartz during and after Covid, but that is when the CEO wanted to show shareholders that he was cutting costs by cutting people and shutting down 1 of 3 sites (plant and lab). As a result both of the remaining plants and labs had no redundancy and were ran well over capacity with skeleton crews. There is a grand inquisition to find out where the quality problems are coming from and nobody wants to draw attention to the emperor’s new clothes. Over the past few months where quality has been deemed “important” unplanned and uninformed objectives have continued to be pushed. Many of the people brought into management positions from the CEOs former stops have behaved in a way that may have been acceptable in their home countries but is borderline illegal in the US.

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5.0
Feb 24, 2026
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Pros

It's all just so wonderful. Leadership, especially that from Europe is just so great. They like to change their goals every other day and I think that's great for the employee.

Cons

None, just so so great.

1.0
Jun 28, 2026
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Pros

They improved the benefits, but that doesn’t cover up for their gross incompetence. HR actively trying to get employees to leave positive reviews on Glassdoor, usually around when someone gets a raise or considered for a new position, seems shady right?

Cons

Absolutely in no way should anyone accept a job here, even in desperation. They are an absolute mess, confused, disorganized, not a clue about how to operate a business in the US. Even if you accept a job with them, it’s highly likely that you will be laid off in a matter of months or reorganized out which has happened multiple times in the last 2 years. It’s actually quite amazing that a company can be this incompetent. They don’t actually care about you, especially if you are an American. They layoff long tenured employees with little severance because you’re just a number. Sibelco bankrupted a US company before and appears they learned nothing. It would not surprise me to see bankruptcy in the near future or sell off of parts of the business to stay afloat. Clearly they learned nothing from the last time they were inept and bankrupted a US business. Their European leadership are way in over their heads. It’s actually comical how bad they have messed up in the US glass market, competitors are eating their lunch and they aren’t intelligent enough to compete back. You need to run from this place, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, not even my worst enemy.

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