Pella reviews

inconsistent hours and work/life balance. your hours will change daily making it extremely difficult to plan anything on your off time. rampant favoritism they have a continuous improvement department with frequent teams to improve productivity, but it's always the same people on these teams and rarely people who work in the area that they are attempting to improve. management at my site was more akin to a fraternity. a lot of "yes men" and finger pointing with little accountability for their departments. training is insanely overlooked. you spend a few hours, for one week in a class for the HR side of things, then you go to your area and are handed a paper you are required to sign stating you understand how to operate the machine(s) BEFORE you have even attempted to operate. supposedly there are certified trainers but in my time here I have only met two. If you are injured at work, be prepared to advocate for yourself because they will fight you and push as much blame onto you as possible. They have a evaluation system here for raises but a lot of the items on the evaluation are not available for everybody so it really just comes down to how much they like you. if you are good at your job, and are attempting to apply for better positions, your manager might go out of their way to hold you down and question your aspirations.

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.