International Paper reviews

Politics and management style impact your career, income, and job satisfaction. Two employees with nearly identical skill sets, working for two different managers in two different geographies will have two completely different opportunities. In one region, management promotes, recognizes, and rewards good performance. In the second region, the management makes decisions which limit the employees success, but blames the employee for poor performance. The management in region two is less likely to recognize good performance. Having a manager that is willing to share the credit for good performance and recognizes good performance to mid-level and top level managers, is the difference between an employee that will be promoted, and an employee that will become stagnant and unproductive.

You can't really have an opinion. You have to kiss butt to get ahead and there are very few African Americans in top management positions. So as an African American, that would mean that there is a limit to have far you can climb the ladder at International Paper. It is very political. The company treats people like resources and not like people.