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Generac Power Systems

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Generac Power Systems reviews

2.8

40% would recommend to a friend

(823 total reviews)
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Aaron Jagdfeld

56% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Generac Power Systems has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 823 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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823 reviews
2.0
Aug 25, 2018

Conservative and Antiquated Company Culture.

Anonymous employee
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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.

2.0
May 6, 2017

Numbers Numbers Numbers

Recommend
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Pros

Fellow employees are generally fun to be around and we work well with each other. Company picnics can be fun too.

Cons

Everyone is disposable. All about the numbers. HR changes constantly. Extreme micromanaging. Pretend to care about employees but constantly lie about what they are doing to make our jobs safer and easier. Also they pretend to listen to employee concerns only to go in one ear and out the other.

1.0
Apr 3, 2017

Toxic

Recommend
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Pros

Some good people with good work ethic, solid personal/business ethics, good business knowledge and understanding how to win business. Fantastic facilities for a manufacturing company.

Cons

Lack of trust and empowerment from the top down. C-level micromanages entirely too much for a company this size. Competent people are hired with the ability to do the job, only to have their momentum and efforts stifled by having to constantly get denied for some of the most mundane things. Company has very little true understanding of how to work proactively to gain placement and share. Always running fire drills at quarter/year end for things that could have been prevented with some foresight and strategy. No appreciation for a job well done, regardless of the circumstances. Ethics of many employees are questionable considering the amount of soap-opera type drama occurring daily between internal employees. Unrealistic expectations from a numbers perspective driven by pie-in-the-sky forecasts...this doesn't work with a weather driven category. On top of that, realistic forecasts and planning provided is thrown out and/or not even looked at for fear that reality will disagree with executive perspective. Fear of executive wrath/rebuke drives decisions.

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