Formica reviews

3.5

48% would recommend to a friend

(135 total reviews)

Mark Adamson

53% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Formica has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 135 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Formica employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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135 reviews
2.0
Dec 2, 2016

Failing Businesses are not fun to work for.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A high turnover of staff makes meeting new people easy, it also means there are plenty of advancement opportunities as your boss will probably lose his job sooner or later.

Cons

The business is failing and this creates an culture of blame, constructive criticism or pointing out opportunities is usually met with extremely defensive behaviors up and down the company. The product is old, the manufacturing process has not changed in over 100 years. Competitors are creating higher quality product through much cheaper manufacturing processes, and without the appetite to evolve I can't see the situation changing nor any career being a long term prospect. The computer systems used are also very old and limiting, they have recently spent a huge amount of money upgrading - but they upgraded to another extremely old and limited system.

4.0
Nov 8, 2016

Great Place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

great team morale, friendly and helpful co-workers, laid back work environment,

Cons

Not a whole lot of advancement opportunities

5.0
Oct 30, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Hard work is recognised. Plenty of opportunities if you keep your eyes and ears open. Lots of investment from Fletcher Building over the next few years. Great people to work with. Forward thinking upper management.

Cons

Some of the middle management have different visions and methods. People that aren't from the shop floor making changes that aren't cleared with shop floor workers. Labour problems due to poor attendance from the same suspects.

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