PPG reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(2,646 total reviews)
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Timothy M. Knavish

73% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

PPG has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,646 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PPG 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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3K reviews
1.0
Apr 29, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Paints and coating are actually an absolutely fascinating products with meaningful impact on the world around us 401k match was great

Cons

The R&D arm of this company is horrific. I worked in a very toxic lab environment in grad school so I was thrilled to go to an industrial lab where everyone is working for the same company and in it together.....not at all the case at PPG. Idea theft and falsification of data runs rampant, it also is the rewarded so it is not the place for you if you want to do good science. HR policies and treatment of employees is decades behind most modern companies.

2.0
Apr 28, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The people are generally friendly. After a few months of getting familiar, your day-to-day gets fairly routine. The pay is nice, though I'm not familiar enough with benefits packages to say if PPG's is nice or competitive. They do a good job of accommodating vacation time, and scheduling is fairly flexible granted you are able to find a coworker to cover your shift. PPG looks very good on a resume.

Cons

You will not work this position for more than 2 years, which could either be a good thing or a bad thing depending on your circumstance. Quality focus is more geared toward bringing in newer and cheaper workers than they are capable of providing clear, relevant, and ongoing coaching to develop quality workers for long term. Couple this with a new director of IT who seems less interested with in-house development than their predecessor, I have a difficult time expressing optimism for long-term employment to entry level workers. Quality reviews seem more like a chance to nitpick bland details and lower your performance score than they are about identifying and correcting recurring shortcomings. After interviewing for similar positions, it started to become clear to me that very few of the tasks I had been performing throughout my day to day were in-depth enough to transfer between jobs. You will get surface level experience in a ton of unfamiliar systems. You will have an impressive looking resume. You will not have trouble getting another interview. But I find it unlikely to have enough in-depth understanding of the applications/procedures you support to "talk the talk." You will be sharing equipment (keyboards, mice, headsets, desks, etc) with everyone in the office. Germaphobes beware. You will subject yourself to random drug screenings via hair sample. A 1 hour unpaid lunch is mandatory when working normal daylight hours, lunch breaks are not technically scheduled during off hours because it is assumed you will eat at your desk between calls.

1.0
Feb 19, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

None. People are not valued at ppg only spread sheets and data are valued, however they are wrongly interpretated.

Cons

Under the guise of lowering hours ppg is going to reduce staff even in profitable stores and reduce certain peoples hours to part time in effort to get them to quit. Ppg has been sued for this action in the past sue them again please

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