Formerly a great company - Anonymous employee Waters Employee Review

2.0
Jul 9, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

High operating margins means the company will continue to exist. They pay you in the currency of the country you live in, for example I live in the US and they paid me in US dollars

Cons

Many antiquated systems and business processes, and the pace of Change is so extraordinarily slow that it is hard to see how this company will ever catch up to the modern world. The CEO has surrounded himself with yes men, will not gather any information from the ground level of the organization because he thinks he knows everything, claims to be data driven but ignores data that doesn’t already agree with his initial bias, and it seems that he only thinks of the employees as numbers in a dataset. The company used to be completely against remote work, added a program for remote work a few years prior to the pandemic, then for some reason removed that program during the pandemic, now everyone is required to be in the office 2-3 days a week regardless of the job they do and who they collaborate with. This was after management promised that the company would remain flexible after the pandemic. Pay raises are a joke, management acknowledges that inflation is a problem, then after a record year they still give a 3% cost of living increase. Many groups have no real career advancement possibilities. Most new leadership roles are filled by external employees, meaning you need to leave to get the experience required to advance in this company. Training for career advancement is lackluster. Also, somehow the management team is trying to convince the team that by increasing hiring in India will help career advancement elsewhere.

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Cons

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