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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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2.0
Jul 23, 2015

Gaining experience

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Many people get to be involved in the product lifecycle from it's inception which is a lot nicer than some bigger companies where people just do their specific job and pass the project off to the next person. Here, you get to learn a lot about the products and processes. Everyone works together and most people get to wear many hats. Depending on your position, they also are flexible about moving you around in the company. Generac is also very focused on growing and diversifying the business so they're not so dependent on storms to increase sales any more.

Cons

It's a revolving door. They don't retain employees because they don't put effort into it. They pay people in the office decently to start, but it's a good year if raises keep up with inflation. They pay barely minimum wage to the production employees, so there are weeks that 5 people will start, and you're lucky if 2 of them are left at the end of the week. You're even luckier if one of them is left after a few months. Office employees rarely have only a 40 hour work week, and production employees have mandatory overtime and weekends when we're busy. The company is growing and expanding our reach, but it is growing faster than we can hire employees to take care of new projects and products. We barely get a handle on something and will get thrown something new while we're still trying to hire from the last increase in products or the last round of people that quit. We're going to run through the entire workforce in the area

4.0
Jul 23, 2015

Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Eager to grow, innovative, decent compensation, positive attitude

Cons

Does not reimburse mileage between plants, location is far from highway

1.0
Jul 23, 2015

Run Away

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It is located in Waukesha

Cons

The only people in the organization who count are the executive team even though one of Generac's touted values is "People". Everyone else is not smart enough to have good ideas and is mocked and belittled in large meetings by the elite executive team . I have a very large log of all the stupid things I have been told to do that contradict common sense. As was stated in another review "check your brain at the door" because you don't get to use it.

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