ASTOUND Reviews

3.4

63% would recommend to a friend

(112 total reviews)

Dale Morgan

72% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

ASTOUND has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 112 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ASTOUND 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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112 reviews
1.0
6 Apr 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Enjoyed majority of my immediate team members, not "Upper Management" though.

Cons

Claims to be a "family first company", yet expects salaried employees to work 24 hours a day, work during PTO and of course during Sick Days! No clear direction from Upper Management. Owner has too many grand ideas and ultimately fails at achieving any of them. Too many Directors and Vice Presidents for a small company getting paid 90% of the money while the rest of us got 10% to split.

1.0
14 Feb 2018

Terrible

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Creative environment with fun projects

Cons

Management is terrible and turnover is outrageous. I've never worked at a company where so many people quit overnight with no warning. That says a lot about a company when people don't even feel comfortable giving 2 weeks' notice. Management thinks they are doing a great job and see no need to listen to their people but they drive them into the ground and throw money at them to make them stay as if they can be bought. Most people there last about a year or so.

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ASTOUND Response
8y
Hello Anonymous former employee. We appreciate your input but there are many flaws in your argument. 1. In every company, there are hires that decide to leave for many reasons. If you would have done a little research you would have learned that 95% of our "overnight quitters" are people that we have spoken with beforehand and because we wanted to respect their privacy, the "no warning" was actually with a warning, just not publicised to the whole company. 2. The management "doesn't think we are doing a great job". We believe we are doing the best we can for a company that has been doing so well we need to hire so quickly that growing pains are a real thing. We encourage input and love to hear what others think can improve the company. 3. Looking at actual stats the average tenure is 2.9 years. You can check that number out yourself if you have Linkedin Premium. If you don't have premium here is a screenshot. https://imgur.com/sTVUXpl We feel that you are throughing out allegations that aren't only false but seem like they are written by somebody that has never worked for the company and if so your disgruntle review could mean a few things: A. The issue may have been with you and not the company and the attitude and values you are displaying in this review are what made us separate our ways. B. You are from a competing company and actually trying to discredit our company. If you are really a former employee we would like to sit down and have an actual conversation. You are free to contact us at your convenience so we can talk about this review. astoundgroup.com/contact Thank you and have a nice day.
1.0
18 Nov 2017

Horribly Managed

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The internal staff is fun and the culture can be easy-going at times.

Cons

The management is dysfunctional. Finances are not set in order. Most hiring decisions are based not off merit, but rather, off of relations or likability factors. Huge turnover rate. HR doesn't even hold an HR certificate and many illegal practices take place, including extending employees probation without HR present and behind the back of Directors. Pretentious and uncomfortable work environment.

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