Rain Bird reviews

Management has an adversarial relationship with their employees. There is limited tolerance for family committments and the time needed for non converntional families to spend time with each other.

But with so many lateral moves, your salary doesn't increase very fast since they cap the amount you're allowed to get as a raise. And you end up with a lot of people who know a little bit about everything and not enough depth in critical areas. Another negative is that they are very reluctant to adapt new technology. Their sales people were still using an analog dial-up number to retrieve email as recently as three years ago. They want to adopt lean manufacturing principles without also investing in the technology needed to make lean manufacturing work. The private culture of Rain Bird permeates every aspect of how they run things. This air of secrecy often means the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Different business units cannot compare trends and share information because senior leadership of one division cannot share information with their sister divisions.