If you get hired, expect the worst company you have ever worked for - Maintenance Technician Alene Candles Employee Review

1.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nothing pros except no test for recreational use. So I can use during lunchtime and breaks.

Cons

Management is the worst, they keep on changing priorities left and right. Maintenance is treated by operations like 2nd clas citizens. Operations is constantly breakiing machines and blaming maintenance. I have fixed the mengibar 1837988 times and they keep on messing the same thing saying we don't fix anything. The plant manager in this building has no idea what he is doing. At first he is a nice guy, and whenever the powets above pressure him, he comes in threatening to fire people. People in the other building take defective candles home, but we can only take 2 or 3 wall flowers before ppl get annoyed. Either they don't plan for busy season or they have no idea on how to so the work because there hasn't been a year where busy season is the worst. They spend money on parties and big management bonuses (15%-20%), but they keep on laying off people every year. All of the investment goes to NH, which doesn't make any money, and hasn't made any money in years and our plants that do make money (and us who make money for you) are treated like second class citizens in salary, benefits, and respect. Safety here is a joke. People give gift cards to avoid recordables. Nothing sits well here. They keep on pushing on line 302 and over the years it has yet to do what's expected, which results in plant manager here losing his mind on us and blaming maintenance for everything when the operators are better handling a lego instead of production equipment. C suite top guy is a micromanager.

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5.0
3 Nov 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Alene Candles was a great company to work for. People were nice and everyone contributed to the best of their abilities. Alene did a lot of work promoting a very positive culture and added a lot of activities for associates through the years. The company was not perfect, but what company is? Everyone was doing there absolute best and that's what counts. It is amazing to see how a senior leader like the COO knows the people on the floor by name.

Cons

It's a small company with a very seasonal product, so work can be a little hectic at times. This should not be a dealbreaker for anyone who is thinking about coming to Alene. Also, it is a small company so career opportunities are less. But Alene spends a lot of time compensating this by providing a lot of training and development like the leads program.

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Alene Candles Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience and kind words about Alene Candles. We're happy to hear that you appreciated the positive culture and our commitment to training and development through the Leads program. We acknowledge the challenges of working in a seasonal business and appreciate your advice on planning for peak seasons. We’re always looking for ways to improve our processes to make the busy season more manageable for everyone. Thank you again for taking the time to write this review, and we wish you all the best in your future endeavors. Sincerely, Human Resources
1.0
30 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

None, that place is an absolute mess.

Cons

They don't test for rec use, so between the smell of the candles and the smell of rec sometimes working there is horrible. They are always showing favoriteism. Some people make more money than others in the same role, and they arbitrarily give raises to people in the in crowd. I know of at least 3 peoplen that got money with no extra work doing the same job as everyone else. Manufactiring, engineering, and maintenance are always talking bad of each other. Also, they talk a great game on safety, but allowing ppl to go in feeling nice, or ppl going out on a smoke break coming back feeling nice and no one doing anything about it tells a very different story.Manahement is clicquey and gossipy. I didn't care about leasership yapping to us that Everest was a waste of money and NH needed to shutdown or that the people representing the customer are incompetent or so. I was there to do my job, every day felt like a soap opera.

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