Georgia-Pacific reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(3,050 total reviews)
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David Duncan

90% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Georgia-Pacific has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,050 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Georgia-Pacific 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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3K reviews
5.0
Jun 24, 2015

Eyes wide open

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to be employed. Helpful kind work environment. Great benefits and perks. Training and forward mobility opportunities.

Cons

The Koch brothers came in and divided the company. Other entities were introduced. Ultra right wing attitudes flourished.

1.0
May 22, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This site was a Buckeye Technologies site purchased with last 3 years. Peers are hard working and good to work with. The concept of Koch Market Based Management may eventually make the site functional and a pleasant place to work.

Cons

The functional group hierarchy are silos that cause disconnects impacting the organization and site as a whole. There are unrealistic project and operations demands for the amount of people causing excessive work and on call hours. Basically plan to live for the company with little reward. Management as a whole is not supportive and the opportunity to advance is dim. This site is in Flux trying to change from Buckeye processes to new GP processes and there is a struggle in almost every level and department. There has been alot of turn over recently for a site that typically has employees 20+ years.

1.0
Apr 28, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Steady business and decent 401k if you make it through the 3 yr vesting period.

Cons

No wage increases and p-pay is not as lucrative as advertised, negotiate everything up front. There is no work / life balance, expectation is that you are always there fire fighting. Division Opex Mgr goes through the mills and destroys morale while providing zero value to the business. Too much turnover in the salaried and hourly ranks, MBM is only a poster on the wall and a convenient excuse to terminate employees. Salaried leaders get burned out and the only people that stay are there because they are in an area where there is no other opportunities and they are unwilling to relocate for something better.

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