Roquette reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(208 total reviews)
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Pierre Courduroux

87% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Roquette has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 208 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Roquette 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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208 reviews
2.0
Nov 6, 2009

Roquette review

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent salary and benefits, excellent (if not overwhelming) opportunity to gain "hard-core" process and project experience

Cons

Long hours, rather large turnover, poor relations with French management and upper management in general, union issues.

1.0
Dec 10, 2015

RAI is circling the bowl. I hope it can be saved.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I'm retired after nearly 40 years working at the Keokuk plant. I have seen a lot of changes and not much for the better. In spite of that, I made a decent living there to provide for my family. For the record, my living was much better in the early days than it had been since Roquette took over. I thank my lucky stars that I have been a good saver and a reasonably successful small investor because if I was a young person starting out there, it would not probably go as well.

Cons

What has Roquette in bad shape these days is a direct result of foolishly locking out its' hourly workforce for ten months in late 2010 and most of 2011. They have never recovered from that, but weren't in real good shape to begin with. A labor dispute was the last thing they needed. They have lost many good people and get enough local bad press as well as word of mouth criticism to the point they have difficulty hiring.

1.0
Jan 1, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Ok pay for the area, and a good place to get some experance in how not to manage a Company and it people

Cons

The French and Upper Management, spend more times in meetings on how to tie your hands even more. Big on making everything look great on paper, personnel goals, safety training, but never doing anything to fixed the problems or quality of life and safety of lower management and union personnel. Expect to live at work, putting in 60 - 70 hours per week

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