Easily the worst company I’ve ever worked for
Pros
You get free safety shoes yearly.
Cons
Too many issues to count, but the biggest is pay. Sofidel keeps wages low by giving employees rare job titles that have little market comparison while piling multiple roles onto one person. It is common to be asked to do the work of two or three jobs. All decisions come from Italy with no clear reasoning. The company is extremely cheap, which makes every part of the job harder. Tools that would make work faster are denied due to cost. Instead, they hire ten people to do the work of three and then claim they cannot pay fairly because “the team is too big.” Clearwater, the company they purchased, still has a few strong leaders in Shelby. But Sofidel itself is a disaster. Even in training meetings, employees openly call out HR for the lack of transparency, sneaky practices, and backhanded decisions. If you want to be underpaid, overworked, and ignored by leadership, this is the place. Their hiring model is to buy small-town companies and pay people like cheap labor. If you value respect and fairness, avoid this company. Every process is broken, and leadership only makes it worse. Do not believe the “we love to promote internally” line. It is nothing more than a way to justify low wages. When they expand, they simply underpay someone else and recycle the same empty promises.
