Shaw Industries reviews

Hypocrisy and stupidity at epidemic levels. Senior mgmt fails to validate anything! They stumble along touting how successful the company is, but never verifying what they've been told by their VP's and Directors. They look like imbeciles when they're up telling how "awesome" the company is, because internal teams and even customers know it's a joke. Unqualified "posers" are promoted, therefore any new ideas are from the competition, stolen from a lower-level employee, or outdated, rebranded-as-new ideas that were originally launched 4-5 years ago. The marketing department is the worst. Instead of a cohesive marketing strategy, it feels like 20+ separate marketing departments all wandering around aimlessly. Carpet hates hard surfaces; Hard Surfaces hates Carpet; and so on. And because of Shaw's practice of promoting unqualified employees to VP's and Directors, there's no organization. Folks roll in each day without a clue as to their role and responsibilities.

Horrible backstabbing to get ahead. It is who you know not what you know. Management may set a directive and even if you advise that it is wrong they will use you as a scape goat if it goes bad. I have never been at a company with so many people who knew so little about a subject matter they considered themselves experts on. Managers and Directors will take your ideas and present to management as their own. This may be an unpopular statement, but they have a Women's Innovation Network only to appease the women so they think they are actually being listened to and promoted. Different company since Mr. Shaw left. The new regime forces early retirement on many that are very valuable employees. Use this company for training, but take your career some where else to be appreciated. Good bonuses if you are in the good ol boy click, if not you will watch them build houses and vacation homes as you struggle to get ahead.