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Generac Power Systems

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Generac Power Systems reviews

2.8

42% would recommend to a friend

(825 total reviews)
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Aaron Jagdfeld

58% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Generac Power Systems has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 825 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Generac Power Systems 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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825 reviews
2.0
Aug 25, 2018

Conservative and Antiquated Company Culture.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Generac offers competitive pay and are venturing into exciting ways of using technology to drive business improvements. They are making significant investments in the headquarters building in Waukesha. An on-site gym is being worked on and slated to be operational soon. They are also pushing into the global market more and more. Generac is also very involved from a corporate citizenship standpoint.

Cons

I have only been at Generac a short period and have noticed a very old way of doing business. The culture is very conservative. I have noticed that the executive belt rarely ever communicates to the employees and seems to operate from a pedestal. Diversity is lackluster. I was hesitant on taking the job based on the negative feedback on here and decided to take a risk anyway. I am starting to regret making that decision. The feedback here is very accurate and Generac needs to take it seriously. An example of a really conservative way of doing business is the use of internet quota times and very restricted internet usage. YouTube for example is under the quota system, even though there are legitimate business reasons to use it. What it says to me is that they don’t expect their employees to act with integrity or behave like adults. I would definitely advice you to really think about taking an offer from this place. This is going to be a relatively short stop for me. I am hanging on to some hope that this place changes for the better, but I am not optimistic.

5.0
Aug 22, 2018

matrial handler

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

its a good place to work

Cons

i dont see no downsides working at generac

3.0
Jul 26, 2018

Make sure you are passionate about this business

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This is a growing company taht I believe will have a promising future if you’re passionate about the overall products that were being offered to consumers. The story of how Generac was started was interesting. Good benefits offered and a wide range of departments here. Cafeteria on site was a plus. Some of my coworkers were absolutely amazing to work with and very helpful.

Cons

The main reasons why I left were I could count of one hand how many other African American employees there were at any given time out of around 300+ employees so that made me feel that they thought AA’s are inadequate?? Also, training was absolutely unstructured. My trainer himself though always seemed under pressure but I think he did well given the tools and experience he had. Another manager was okay but I can tell she had the personality of entitlement and definitely micromanaged. I’ve seen someone get treated extremely unfairly and not equal to their peers on multiple occasions and it ignited a fire inside of me. Extremely gossipy coworkers were very annoying, I felt I couldn’t go to HR because I felt information would not be kept confidential so ultimately I made the decision that this was not where I planned on retiring from. I also had a bad experience with someone in the Payroll, extremely rude because I had a question about accessing an account.

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