Shaw Industries reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,266 total reviews)
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Tim Baucom

77% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Shaw Industries has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,266 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shaw Industries employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Aug 26, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

It's close to my house and the people I work with are good people. The company itself is a good company. We have pretty decent benefits and I feel that my pay is in line with the market.

Cons

The environment is hard to work in. The management has no clue how to step in to any of the positions at our plant, even though the Shaw guidelines for facility managers states that they must know how to perform each position under their management. It's not good for morale when we are constantly being told that we should be able to do perform our duties faster and with more efficiency. It's laughable since this person has never done any of our jobs. This manager was in the shipping office during a lunch rush one afternoon and ended up leaving, and said he'd be back "when we weren't so busy". Rather than helping because we were short-handed, he chose to leave. All he is concerned with is "getting our numbers up". He's not at all concerned with the fact that we are people, not numbers. If he at least tried to familiarize himself with our processes, the morale would be much better.

4.0
Mar 19, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working for the largest domestic flooring manufacturer. Decent benefit package. Employee discount on flooring products is really nice.

Cons

Little recognition for performance. Nepotism and favoritism run wild here. The compant is now nothing more than a small piece of the Berkshire Hathaway empire.

2.0
Jan 30, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

financial strength, Berkshire Hathaway parent, manufacturing expertise, distribution strength, industry dominance or monopoly with only two other competitors in soft surface flooring categories both residential and commercial

Cons

large organization bureaucracy, cronyism, market leader complacency, failed international business model, failing hard surface business, very poor revenue diversification, excessively complex systems and communication flow, excess market overlap amongst brands/divisions resulting in inter-company predatory selling, poor employee valuation and broken pay to performance

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