Fredon Reviews

3.2

61% would recommend to a friend

(38 total reviews)

51% positive business outlook

Fredon has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fredon 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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38 reviews
1.0
30 May 2017

shocking management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most of my work colleagues were really great people, intelligent, helpful and down to earth. I couldn’t ask for better people to work with and I have a lot of respect for them. The coffee machine was good. That’s about where it stops.

Cons

I have never seen such awful incompetent and inexperienced managers as I have seen here. Some so chokingly traditional that suffocate all good things and ideas that happen here. Eg. one is a complete rude bully living in the un-political correctness of the 1990’s another a young immature military plebe who thinks all money is disposable income regularly showing off weekly expensive purchases has extreme tunnel vision and thinks being a manager is making all men your best friend. Not management material at all and clearly not trained to be in these positions on financial matters, effective communication or anything managerial for that matter, Including job timeframes where management sit on jobs till the last minute then explode it onto staff to do immediately which leads to work being completed in haste and not to the standard it should be. Short cuts have to be taken to finish on time and the end result unprofessional with all standards thrown out the window. There is no communication between the managers and team members at all. Management do not lower themselves to talk to the staff in regards to resourcing, hence have no idea on what the staff is doing or working on at any given time. Staff here have to be self-managing and self-directing and most of the time aren’t doing a great deal and are waiting around for management to allocate work which never comes. Yet management assume everyone is busy, then go and hire contractors to do work. So a complete waste of money, time and un-utilised in-house staff. Staff are never informed of any futures work, contracts or changes and are completely kept in the dark. Even on changes and events that effect employees' directly. People just know when it happens without warning.

2.0
8 Feb 2017

Bad culture, worse management

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Pros

Paid well, interesting projects. Great coffee in the head office from the coffee roasting house across the road. Fast internet

Cons

terrible management with no interest in hearing new ideas from staff. At the annual conference the boss told a story about a workers balls hanging out the bottom of his shorts in an office full of women. Apparently the women "loved it". Nepotism is ripe and the gossiping is woeful. Forgot to mention the clock watchers, don't leave 2 mins early.

4.0
22 Sept 2021

Fredon Electrical.

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Pros

They work on some significantly large construction projects.

Cons

There appears to be an obvious element of nepotism in middle management, where supervisors are related to construction managers and the tradespeople are long time friends with supervisors, therefore those who put in the hard work go unrecognised and are made redundant after project completion. Due to recent growth, there appears to be a number of inexperienced 'project managers' without any formal tertiary education who are placed in charge of significantly large infrastructure projects. This inexperience leads to a dysfunctional workplace where poorly planned tasks take longer, cost more and reduce the productivity and overall morale of the workforce (at least the profit margins are large enough to cover this up).

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