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Ore Designs

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Ore Designs reviews

3.3

61% would recommend to a friend

(34 total reviews)

Shane Larson

60% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.7

Diversity & inclusion

3.3

Culture & values

3.3

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Work/Life balance

3.1

Career opportunities

3.0

Senior management

Ore Designs has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 34 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ore Designs 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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34 reviews
1.0
Aug 16, 2022

Do not come to this place!

Fabricator
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good place to learn a skilled trade and move on as soon as you are ready. If you work in production you can mostly focus on your job and not worry about the politics.

Cons

This company has the absolute highest turnover at every level you’ll ever see. The biggest problem is the turnover of upper management. If they don’t leave, the owner runs them off rather than trying to train them or address problems. This creates much bigger problems. There is a culture of fear at every level because everyone in management knows they could be gone any day and everyone in production knows they’ll have to work even more because of it. Preproduction creates all sorts of problems for production and production gets the heat when they can’t produce enough. There have been managers trying to fix the problems but nobody is here long enough to make a difference. This is a place where the highest decision maker makes decisions based on emotions and input from people covering their own position. The result is the only managers that stay are the ones that can politically maneuver well enough with the owner and deflect blame onto others. Not the best environment for anyone who wants to enjoy their job.

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Ore Designs Response
3y
It's disappointing to hear you feel so negatively about Ore, but we do appreciate you being honest and sharing your frustrations. Assuming you do still work here, we'd appreciate a chance to further discuss ways to improve. Ore is a non-retaliatory employer and we welcome feedback (good or bad) from everyone. With that in mind, we hope you feel comfortable sharing these concerns with your Lead/Supervisor/Manager or a member of the HR team. They're here to help remove obstacles and frustrations and make Ore a better place to work. In the meantime, let me respond to a few of your concerns: The "absolute highest turnover rate at ever level"... Ore has a 6.9% Average Monthly Turnover Rate this year. This is company-wide. It's Ore's position that any employee who leaves Ore (whether involuntarily or voluntarily) is a failure on our part, and it means we either 1) failed to train adequately, 2) failed to retain successfully, or 3) as you put it, we "suck at hiring". Sometimes it's one of the aforementioned and sometimes it's a combination of all three. So we're addressing all three: Training, Retaining, and Hiring. As a member of the Executive Team with intimate knowledge of all hirings and firings, I can confirm that there is always more to the situation that someone on the outside knows. It's true, we've experienced turnover of upper management and that has created some challenges, but we're confident we're improving as a company and things will continue to get better. Change in and of itself is hard, especially for those who don't have all the details and insight behind the change, and Ore can do better at communicated why changes are made. And we will. "Production [employees] get the heat"... Management is aware of, and constantly hi-lights with compliment, the efforts of our Production Employees. We know they are working as hard and as fast as they can and it's shared publicly in company-wide meetings the appreciate we feel for our employees in the shop. We celebrate and recognize the fact that our Production Employees are the ones who dig us out of difficult situations and we value them tremendously. We are working through our Pre-Production processes to improve them and thereby alleviate the strains that the mistakes made in this area of the business places on Production. We welcome your feedback ...if even critical or negative... and would like to discuss solutions with you to make things better.
1.0
Jun 21, 2022

Terrible culture

Project manager
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

New building, free lunches every now and then, used to do breakfasts on Fridays which was fun.

Cons

Terrible leadership starting at the very top. On any given day you can get completed degraded because the customer knows the owner. Many times it is out of our control since we get behind in production and then have to communicate long lead times. Shocking to see that the company has 3 stars on here, I am truly surprised as I have been here a while and many to most people are burned out or frustrated.

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Ore Designs Response
3y
Negative ratings like this are hard to receive, but we're also grateful for them because they bring attention to the things we need to do better. And we will. Ore is very interested in hearing what our employees (current and former alike) have to say because it's our employees that make us who we are. That's why we frequently ask for feedback. We do this by: - our open door policy (the CEO welcomes any/all employees to talk with him directly whenever they need to be heard) - anonymous quarterly eNPS (Employee Net Promotor Score) score surveys in which we ask our employees if they'd recommend Ore as a place of employment to a friend or colleague, and why or why not? - anonymous quarterly Wellbeing Surveys that ask what Ore does well, and what we can do better - regular One-to-One Meetings between employees and their Lead/Supervisor/Manager to encourage candid and direct feedback - regular One-to-One Meetings between employees and members of the HR Team to ensure our employees feel supported and encouraged to speak up and tell us what they think. In the end, we're disappointed you decided to leave before we were able to help out by making Ore better. But we do appreciate your feedback and if the opportunity ever presents itself, we'd love to hear more ...even if it's hard feedback to hear.
3.0
Jun 15, 2022

Good environment, but has issues

Cad designer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good friendly work environment. 4 days, 10 hour shifts; enables longer weekends.

Cons

Too much overtime, overworks employees. Poor communication from PMs/sales to customers, leads to errors, revisions, and rework.

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Ore Designs Response
3y
Thank you for the your thoughts! Unfortunately (and fortunately) 2022 has been a busy year for Ore! We've grown and received more orders then every before and that growth has presented some good challenges for us. We used overtime more than we'd like to this year and have made some needed adjustments to reduce future overtime needs. It will always be available to those who want it, but we've made investments in new technology, more experienced leadership, and made organizational changes to improve communication and collaboration. We're excited to see what the future brings and we welcome the challenges of a growing business! Thanks for working alongside us!
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