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Generac Power Systems

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Generac Power Systems reviews

2.8

45% would recommend to a friend

(163 total reviews)
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Aaron Jagdfeld

59% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

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4.0
Jan 30, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Generac is changing - improving culture and work life balance. The CEO is doing a great job running this company. Every time I hear him speak, it is inspiring and makes me proud to be at Generac. There are some great things in the works for the future of this company. There are certainly challenging times just like with any company but Generac is growing by pulling all the right levers. Love the people i work with and i am gaining more and more confidence in Senior Management leadership.

Cons

I think the most challenging aspect of a rapidly growing company is meeting the demands of scaling processes globally. I think we are starting to turn the corner on that.

1.0
Dec 4, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very skilled and resilient support staff.

Cons

When events do not go as planned or problem on an existing line within the plant there is absolutely no culpability by the management team to fix the underlying problems or take a step back to fix what is broken; only to band aid the visible symptom and reprimand an overloaded support staff. The support staff is never given a reasonable timeline to properly implement projects, especially with projects that require multiple departments to coordinate without any real guidance or prioritization coming from those on top. There has been an office staff turnover of ~45% from April-December 2018 but at no point has the management group gotten the support team together and given us any vision or guidance of what is being done to fix any of the issues. The only thing keeping the plant even marginally running is the resiliency of the support staff. They continually push through to make the best out of bad situations despite the extra work added due to attrition or the over-promises by the management team. There is zero leadership or communication for short or long term goals, let alone a roadmap on how they plan to get there. This management staff is either unwilling or unable to identify and address the underlying problems within the plant. In short, the management group in Jefferson is not only ineffective but clearly do not understand the sheer scale of work that exists or have a plan to get this plant even remotely close to world class and are utterly overwhelmed.

2.0
Oct 21, 2018

Your just a number, not a person.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

HR team will hire anybody.

Cons

Feels like they don't care if you have a family. They expect you to work Monday through Saturday 9 to 10 hours a day every week. They don't promote from within for anything higher than lead. They don't reward good work or loyalty. They let engineering decide how production is ran, not the production supervisors. HR team will hire anybody. HR team will let workers walk over the shift leads unpunished. Management doesn't seem to know what they are doing. HR team and management team seem to care more about keeping new hires happy at the expense of their long time employees happiness.

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