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Poor management - Sales Donaldson Company Employee Review

2.0
3 Dec 2016
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Pros

A lot of great people work at Donaldson and most of them are very friendly, work hard, and perform their jobs well. However, a lot of great people have been let go - especially people 50 and older - and others have left in the last 2-3 years.

Cons

Current management doesn't care about the employees as is evidenced by laying off people with many years of experience and knowledge because they are earning too much money. Bad and/or inexperienced managers who don't know what they are doing are put in place or moved from one department to another, and good people are leaving as a result. The culture of the company has deteriorated since Bill Cook retired.

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5.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Donaldson is eager to promote internal employees rather than hire outside. In five years, I have seen three engineering technicians (with engineering degrees) promoted to engineer. Donaldson is also very progressive as far as EHS implementation goes

Cons

Some individual managers do not fit the company's great safety first, employee development focused culture - there seems to be little drive for frontline managers to treat their employees with respect, and an understanding that they will be protected by HR or their immediate superiors

1.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The lower level people in the company.

Cons

Management Hr They like to pile on more work and no more pay If you do your job good you get to do other people's jobs too. Don't try to move up because they will tell you you're not qualified then hire someone off of the street with zero knowledge you have to train.

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