John Crane Employee Reviews about "upper management"
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Pros
"Good benefits,good people, secure company" (in 17 reviews)
"The people, environment and good work life balance" (in 15 reviews)
Cons
"Micromanagement environment, Most of the upper management looking for mistakes and defaults rather than focusing on the strength of the people" (in 10 reviews)
"No career growth, low salary, no benefits" (in 5 reviews)
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Reviews about "upper management"
Return to all Reviews"Not a good company to work with"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at John Crane for more than 8 years
Pros
Good engineers to work with
Cons
Micromanagement environment, Most of the upper management looking for mistakes and defaults rather than focusing on the strength of the people.
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"Review @ JC"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at John Crane full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Decent place to learn how to be a part of a department with no oversight or metrics and in turn never have to be responsible for outcomes or performance.
Cons
Extremely disorganized and constant turnover from upper management, severe red tap makes processing anything a complete nightmare, and too many departments involved in others business (lack of defined scope for departments).
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"Cannot be trusted, values are just words"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at John Crane full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Wonderful staff level colleagues, highly innovative and committed, great products, some good team working.
Cons
Senior level upper management with autocratic leadership style, hire and fire, short term cost focused with poor people skills and a distinct lack of empathy, no progression or development and terrible behaviours especially in Operations. Not trustworthy, building empires, not committed to people, not attractive to anyone wanting any level of flexible working bordering on discrimination. Disorganised, changeable and not inclusive. Generally not kind, think carefully before you engage, there are better employers.
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"Jr Branch Machinest"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at John Crane full-time
Pros
Very high pay rate and good co-workers
Cons
Absolutely the worst middle and upper management I have ever come across
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"Jr branch machinist"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI have been working at John Crane
Pros
Very competitive pay to start.
Cons
Job quickly shifted into high stress and more volume. Employees forced to increase work with no increase in man power. "Lean" being used as excuse to work current workers into the ground with no pay increase while suck ups do nothing. Actually, they laugh all the way to the bank, so that's something! Great place to retire if you can make your mind a void and just complete your workday. Benefits are good, however upper management has premier level tier over production employees. At least in dental area. Great company but be warned: Classic case of haves and have nots. Good ole boy club also comes to mind.
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"Used to be better - steady decline over last 5-7 yrs."
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookI have been working at John Crane full-time for more than 10 years
Pros
Large company with lots of markets around the globe - so in theory it should weather global market downturns better than some. Has 401K match, but other benefits are expensive and getting poorer coverage.
Cons
Been with the company over 15 years, this used to be a decent company, but it has since gone to the bean counters. Very top heavy in management, with little investment in the people that actually do the work and put product out the door. All the focus is on acquisitions and sales force - which does no good if the people that have to design, manufacture, and assemble the products are left in the cold. Raises have always been less than 3% even during good years, so if you don't have a great salary to start it's going to take many, many years to get there. Every couple of years we get a new batch of upper management that then feels like they have to put their stamp on the company and change things (to justify their big paying job). So every couple of years they change how everybody is supposed to do their jobs on a daily basis - all that results in confusion, poor quality, poor employee satisfaction, jobs being late, and a lot of frustration.
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"Decent but future is unknown"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookI have been working at John Crane full-time for less than a year
Pros
pay is okay. benefits are par at best. hours are good offer overtime on weekends
Cons
management has no idea how to run a machine let alone program it. no clue the steps on how to make a good part. and upper management has even bigger blinders as to what goes on with their own shop floor. lots of empty promises and whining about how they are broke
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"Working at John Crane Group, Inc."
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
I worked at John Crane full-time for more than a year
Pros
Top notch, highly intelligent and very interesting group of people to work with throughout the world.
Cons
Upper management thrives on creating an excessively high level of stress before focusing on problem solving.
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"The we say so or you can go!"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at John Crane full-time for more than 8 years
Pros
A lot of good people there that have great ideas. They are willing to help correct the problems
Cons
Upper management is set on it's ways and will not listen. if it's not there ideas it's not a good one. everyone is leaving for this reason and no one wants to apply.
Continue reading "Great Co-op Opportunity"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsDisapproves of CEOI have been working at John Crane
Pros
The co-op in the International Projects Group gives business and marketing students exposure to diverse business experiences. Exposure to sales processes, CRM, analysis, reporting, project tracking, and industry research are a few of the staples of the internship while some involvement in global and regional strategy may take place. There is a lot of data-entry, but some of the intern projects that add to professional experience on the resume make it all well worth it.
Cons
Upper management could improve on considering the audience when reporting the status of the company to the employees. Office technology is slowly improving, but still needs some improvement. Office decor is a little depressing.
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