DornerWorks Reviews

4.3

78% would recommend to a friend

(25 total reviews)

David Dorner

85% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

DornerWorks has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 25 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The DornerWorks employee rating is 24% above average for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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25 reviews
2.0
18 Sept 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Skilled coworkers, fairly competitive pay, flexible schedule

Cons

Frequent travel to inconveniently remote customer locations is required. Projects are heavily customer driven, allowing little space for innovation, especially in areas of process and tooling. You end up feeling like you are just "rented" to other companies as an extra body to throw at a project instead of being a part of a cohesive team environment. When a customer project ends, an intense period of boredom sets in as you have to switch rapidly between random tasks (without enough time to finish any of them). There are so many people in this situation at any given time that management is forced to take whatever projects are offered to them to stay marginally profitable. Because projects are taken out of necessity, they are generally uninteresting and rarely in your particular area of interest or skill. Even though there aren't enough interesting projects to keep everyone occupied, the company still hires new people at an alarming rate. Aerospace/medical/safety critical projects are usually the most boring projects to work on, but the sales team pursues these the most. Office environment is anti-collaborative since only one person can fit at a desk and there are no spaces for collaborative work (people outside the company have even noted this). Even if there were collaboration areas, the project teams are so sectioned off from each other that there would be nothing to collaborate on. Profit sharing is a joke. Distribution is based almost exclusively on how much overtime you put in, so only the workaholics will benefit which really clashes with the company's "sustainable workweek" values.

2.0
5 Aug 2014

Just a hobby for the owners

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible schedule, not overly micro-managed. Flat structure, usually try to help employees in odd situations.

Cons

No plan or don't want to follow any structure. Constantly swapping engineers on projects, virtually no "experts" on a project - ie as soon as the new shiny project comes pull different members off of a current one, wash rinse repeat over and over. Owners want to get away with anything and then wonder why employees act this way. No benefits to stay more than a year or two. Bonus is nearly a joke due to mismanagement of overhead.

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