Wacker Neuson reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)
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Georg Sick

48% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

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2.0
Nov 8, 2014
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Pros

Average benefits and salaries, most non-management co-workers are great people, casual office environment, somewhat flexible hours depending on your position Company sponsored Wellness program with onsite activities.

Cons

Highly stressful environment. Outside consulting firms have informed the company that this is the most stressed out workforce they deal with. The recent initiative by our President to reduce employee stress levels is being treated as a joke by the management. To quote "This is how we do things. Chris will be retiring soon, we aren't going anywhere and we aren't going to change..." Serious lack of training, chronic understaffing. Almost no cooperation between departments, many employees/departments are not held accountable for their work, leaving their co-workers to pick up after them. Policies and procedures are merely suggestions, not followed or enforced. Management is out of touch and definitely show favoritism. Employees who express disagreement with Management face retribution. Good employees who try to change things for the better are pushed out the door. Constant changes, conflicting priorities, excessive workload, lack of direction and focus. Employee development is reserved for a select few, mostly Management and IT personnel. Directives from Munich are based on increasing profits with no consideration for the impact on the quality of the product or employee's work-life balance.

4.0
Sep 29, 2014

Field Sales Force

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Pros

Lot's of autonomy in the field sales force...very little micromanagement in most positions. Well paid. Management often talks about work-life balance and making sure to schedule time at home for your family. Industry leading products.

Cons

In certain positions in the field, there can be so much autonomy it becomes isolating. There is little room for growth, outside of sales management, in the field. So for anything else, that means a move to Milwaukee. Not necessarily a con for everyone. Corporate can tend to get a little out of touch with reality. Corporate culture tends to make everything a secret, sometimes inhibiting open communication and collaboration.

3.0
Feb 11, 2014
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Pros

Decent Company with lots of products. Average salary and benefits for Designers, and Engineers too. Shop pay is decent, and unionized (UAW) Some products are very neat to work on, some innovative things going on. Shop environment is clean and pretty efficient. One of the better manufacturing facilities Ive seen for equipment. Summertime they have "summer hours" which means you can take off friday after noon for free, or the whole day for a 1/2 vac day. It's a nice perk. Good camaraderie among people generally.

Cons

Management / VP's = Good Old Boys club. Many people have been there a long time, which can be viewed as good and bad. Near impossible to get promoted or training. Alot of excuses and no specific blame was placed, but some european lawsuit was cited as the reason for cancelling the profit sharing and scaling back 401k matching for employees in the USA. Didn't make a bit of sense at all. Frankly on some products, there is a very amateur level of engineering that goes into the product, which in some industries is perfectly acceptable believe it or not... The name of the game is copy your competitor however you can, and go sell machines. It's boring. Also too much outsourcing of critical NPD engineering activity if and when it does happen. Upper Mid management and VP's are seriously ignorant as to what NPD really means. EHS program at this place is new and off to a slow start (Environmental Health and Safety). It may have improved though. At least they are trying... Wacker is ripe for some change agents to get employed and transform the place.

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