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Southco

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Southco reviews

4.1

77% would recommend to a friend

(185 total reviews)
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Thomas Mehler

90% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Culture & values

3.6

Work/Life balance

3.6

Compensation and benefits

3.5

Senior management

3.4

Career opportunities

Southco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 185 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Southco 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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Reviews by job title

185 reviews
3.0
Oct 25, 2009

Eh.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

At the time, good people worked at Southco. More opportunity than a small company since it is a global company.

Cons

Management has removed many of the great people that worked at Southco and making things very difficult for the few people that remain.

1.0
Mar 23, 2009

Hard Times! Again

Senior project engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Atmosphere and high caliber people. One thing that Southco did well was screen people to the highest standards. When you went to work there, you knew you were working with some of the best engineers available. Brian M. worked to correct past internal hiring errors when he came on in 2000. This was hard to do in a culture where the engineer could do any job just because they were an engineer. Instilling accountability using an internal scorecard let everyone know where they stood. Very open and honest communication when it was prudent. The culture was in line with the mission statement

Cons

When I first landed there they had an excellent family oriented culture. Over the years as the senior management became more confident in the boards backing they became more ambitious, they tried to maintain that culture but undercut most of the programs that made it that way. Being a privately held company that for years invested in a very incestuous hiring practices, they had the ultimate environmental in breeding. People were promoted that had no experience in the positions they were given. Often promoted well above their skill and education level, they tended to treat some people more "fair" than others. As a consequence they weren't seen as rewarding employees for exceptional work.

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