Mass Layoffs With No Warning! Hired & Fired me within a month! - Management Trainee Sika Employee Review

1.0
Aug 30, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

In this program, they take care of all your living expenses, costs with relocation, and provides you with all the technologies you need (phone, laptop, desktop, etc.).

Cons

They will fly you out to one of their worksites in the US and make you stay there for 6 months. You will have no say for what department you want to work in. For example, I was a business major and they put me in a chemistry lab. The company has very poor management and the managers are usually out of town 4/5 days of the week. At the start of this role there is no organization and you sit there doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for a whole month. If you are ambitious, hardworking, or care about good company culture.. I do not recommend this role. They hired and fired me within a month because of "budget cuts". You would think that companies invest in their young leaders but this company has such poor management that I worry about what would happen in the future. They laid me off because they did not need an extra employee in R&D but if they had put me in any other department I would have been fine. They also moved me from SoCal to the East Coast and gave me 5 days to pack and fly back home.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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Sika Response
5mo
Thank you for your review of Sika, we are glad that you enjoyed our environment and team spirit and we wish you all the best in your future career.
1.0
Jun 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

New, relatively clean facility. Nice location. Facility is small and simple. Easy to learn the equipment.

Cons

Poor communication. No direction from day to day. You will be judged very quickly by colleagues and management will always side with them even when they are in the wrong. Maintenance boss has NO technical knowledge and that becomes evident and problematic very quickly because he can not recognize your strengths and will challenge your judgement, make you do things his way even though he doesnt know what hes doing. Your contributions will not be recognized or rewarded instead management will get hung up on little things that are of no real consequence. They are cheap and dont like to spend money on spare parts or tools. There are almost zero spare parts so whwn equipment breaks you could be waiting for days for the parts to arrive and in the meantime you get blamed for equipment failure when you had nothing to do with the failure, This is where the boss having no skillset comes into play in a negative way, lack of recognition of systematic troubleshooting steps. The money is below average but the facility is small and quite simplistic. The facility is run mostly by foreigners who display prejudice toward US born citizens. Sounds crazy but it is true.

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Sika Response
2w
We are very sorry to hear about your bad experience. We work hard to create a great environment for all of our employees and to ensure that company policies are clear and effective, globally. We always encourage employees to speak to their line manager or local HR if they have any concerns or are unhappy with any aspect of their work.
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