Milwaukee Tool reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(1,635 total reviews)
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Steven P. Richman

92% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Milwaukee Tool has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,635 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Milwaukee Tool employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Mar 2, 2015

Beware

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great products, high energy. Enthusiastic teams. Great employee discounts.

Cons

Notoriously poor executive leadership...this company fails to retain the really good leaders and managers. Long hours with little recognition.

1.0
Apr 21, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company has been growing and increasing sales, but it has been through selling cheaper outsourced foreign hand tools.

Cons

We are required to come in early and work late and field 10pm conference calls with China. Upper management pushes us for more and more every day. So we every day work our buts off and sacrifice time from our families, overall the pay and bonuses were the worst I have ever seen here. They had a record sales year, and the pay and bonuses were the worst, workers are really disappointed with how the company had been going backwards in their compensation to their hardest working and most committed employees. The company wastes a lot of time with poor communications from the top down. It is just too common to have duplicate efforts on the same work. We spends hours everyday in useless meeting and you look around and everyone is just surfing the internet on phones. Expect to be ignored if you try and say good morning to any upper management when you pass them in the halls. They act as if you do not exist and bury their noses into their phone texts to ignore you. Management has missed the mark and they are ingrained as being dysfunctional in the company. But they are so focused on the bottom line they completely miss reality.

1.0
Apr 16, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is pretty good. Benefits are average. Some perks, but not enough to compensate for all the stress.

Cons

Extremely poor Management! Most NPD managers are failed engineers. Once they become a manager, they are not held accountable for the ton of people that leave annually. HR and TA are totally incompetent! The most meeting heavy company that I have EVER worked at! They are hiring out of State and Country more now because once you get a reputation in Milwaukee, you are pretty much done!

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