Black & Decker Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Black & Decker full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Awesome training program. It's intense and people are competitive. You have a lot of responsibility early on in your career.

Cons – I moved around a lot. It got old uprooting so much. I could have turned down the offers, but then I felt like I would have been overlooks, which almost forced the moves.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Black & Decker full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good environment
Smart people
Interesting projects (when available)

Cons – Work was monotonous, not enough variation. Frequent threat of layoffs

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Black & Decker full-time

Pros – Flexibility, Company Vehicle, ability to create promotions

Cons – No value in personnel, the number is all that matters

Advice to Senior Management – Get closer to your field managers, evaluate them based on Management ability rather than sales alone.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Black & Decker

Pros – public company, big goals and big risks
open management
great feedback
tons of growth opportunities
great compensation package
outstanding company culture
nice balance of life and work

Cons – public company so at the end of the day you are just a number
Quartly fire drills and high stress to please shareholders

Advice to Senior Management – Because of the just a number, no hard feeling policys, B&D lost an unacceptable number of quality people and it has cost them dearly. Probably will never have the market share that was lost.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Black & Decker

Pros – Very friendly employees easy work and life balance, it can get stressful at times. Office is a friendly environment every day

Cons – A lot of meetings take place and at times can feel pointless. A lot of people competing to do the same thing.

Advice to Senior Management – Better assessment process

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Black & Decker

Pros – Pay OK
Time off is good.
Make your own schedule

Cons – Upper Management
Too many fires to put out
Bonus keep decreasing

Advice to Senior Management – Promote within
Give some love to the lower level employees

Current Employee – been working at Black & Decker

Pros – When you put Black & Decker on your resume it gets respect and attention. It is widely considered a blue-chip company. In lower positions, olike channel manager, you will have an opportunity to learn the ropes-- good training.

Cons – In terms of work environment, I understand that in the last couple of years it has improved but the turnover at the top has been a turnstyle-- incredible velocity of new players--none groomed for the job. Especially true in marketing, a highly-fractured department.

Advice to Senior Management – I have no advice for management. I need to write 20 words here and I guess the only thing I can say is that "Black & Decker management" is something of an oxymoron.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Black & Decker

Pros – Encouraging and lively environment to work

Cons – Exposure is not that great

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Black & Decker

Pros – 1. Great products, great history
2. Culture of inclusiveness, politeness
3. Open door policy for most managers
4. Easy moves within company and geographies
5. Very global

Cons – 1. Can get too conservative (read history of acquisition by Stanley)
2. Relies heavily on housing and automobile sectors
3. Historical baggage

Advice to Senior Management – 1. Be creative
2. Allow new talent to advise old guard
3. Be proud of the history, yet not get lost in it

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Black & Decker

Pros – Generally nice people, fun products to develop and use, nice location

Cons – Low pay, lack of confidence of managers in new talent, some people need Master's or higher to promote while other persons with no degrees get promoted, unequitable performance reviews, lousy HR attitude toward employees

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you have been doing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend