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3.7

63% would recommend to a friend

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Emily Videtto

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4.0
Nov 28, 2023

Best place I've worked, but...

Recommend
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Pros

The pay is great after last years raises and the shift differential, especially for this area. My current manager is excellent. I can count on a 40 hour paycheck every week. Yearly bonuses are also great. The veteran management that's been here a while are great resources, and in my experience they care about their employees. Low stress environment, work doesn't effect my homelife.

Cons

The new vacation system of accruing vacation is an improvement over the old system, however the starting amount for the 2024 year is downright wrong, i personally went from 120 hours of vacation (with plans already made for it during the summer of 2024) to 40 hours of vacation and 40 hours of "sick time". It wouldn't have hurt them to give us our usual amounts to start the new system. New managers are too young and have no real experience with the real world. The new match system retirement only pays 4 percent to our 8, a far cry from what it could or should be. HR doesn't advocate for the employees, dealing with many of them feels like being on trial with no representation. Bad employees are given far too many "passes" while others have to pick up their slack.

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Pella Response
2y
Hello! Thanks for sharing your feedback with us. We are committed to ensuring that Pella is a great place to work for our team members. We're proud to offer competitive compensation packages and benefits for our team. We are continually evaluating ways to improve the team member experience and we will share your feedback about vacation time and management with the appropriate teams for their awareness and consideration. If you'd like to share more feedback, please email us at employerbrand@pella.com. Thank you! -AH
2.0
Nov 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Gas compensation. Not overly strict expense reporting Modest salary while training. (Not full commission out the gate) Leads are typically generated for you. Self gens are a bonus but not expected for productivity.

Cons

Horrible communication about schedule. This was present in training and was even worse when you start running leads. Expect to have your entire day set aside at a moments notice. 6:00PM leads are the norm and can be a large distance away. Training is inadequate and poorly structured. Product knowledge is almost entirely self conducted. Management seems to be mostly unaware of the intricate details and incapable of providing adequate training or resources. Training will focus on how to conduct a session with a very unnatural and canned script. They will provide absolutely no training on building rapport, almost nothing on psychology of sales, and no guidance on any soft skills. Once you start running sessions, it is all about hitting numbers. They are intentionally structured against you. Sessions that are cancelled by the client, even if you never ran them, will still count against you. Sessions can be assigned to you that you are not even allowed to sell (due to product limitations and they did not properly vet the appointment) but they will still count these against you. Overall, the training salary makes it appear as if it isn't "sink or swim" culture, but it absolutely is. They will not invest in you unless you bring in money and in rather short order.

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Pella Response
2y
Hello, thanks for sharing your feedback. What you describe does not reflect our expectations of our leadership or our culture. If you're willing to share more specific feedback, please email us at employerbrand@pella.com. -AH
3.0
Nov 13, 2023

Toxic work environment

Recommend
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Pros

Great company, fair pay, good benefits

Cons

Destructive admin that terminates great employees that dont bootlick upper management/HR, managers have inappropriate relationships with subordinates, higher ups with known bad behavior/affairs/inappropriate relations get promoted slap on the hand

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Pella Response
2y
Hello, thanks for sharing your feedback. What you describe does not reflect our expectations of our leadership or our culture. If you're willing to share more specific feedback, please email us at employerbrand@pella.com. -AH
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