Brunswick Reviews

Pros

New ideas are welcome and you are challenged

Cons

A bit behind because of the economic downturn a couple years ago

Advice to Senior Management

keep it up

Pros

Work life balance was appropriate and pay was very competitive.

Cons

The ineptitude of IA management mixed with a co-source arrangement whose sole purpose was to increase their presence and budget left a lot to be desired in terms of opportunity for growth.

Advice to Senior Management

The senior management at Brunswick is very capable. They made tough decisions when necessary but were always upfront, honest and very approachable. Management within the audit department however was deceptive and extremely political.

Pros

Good pay family based company

Cons

Long hours hard hours hard work

Advice to Senior Management

be prepard for anything

Pros

good money when in a position that pays tips.
If you put in a good amount of hour it is possible to move up depending on brunswick opening new locations.

Cons

poor management.
some managers were very disrespectful at times.

Advice to Senior Management

Some managers were good and some were not as nice and appreciative towards employees.

Pros

Job security and good vacation

Cons

Low pay and Elimination of benefits

Advice to Senior Management

Stop taking the benefits away!

Pros

Bowling center is a fun place to work. Good place for your first job. Flexible hours with school and activities. Different jobs within the center.

Cons

Center managers change often making it difficult to build a working relationship and build momentum. Every time a general manager changes it takes time to learn what they want and how they want to run things. Most bowling center sales directors have very little experience and no college degree. Sales directors should have a marketing degree or a higher level of experience. Pay is also bad for supervisors and middle level management. Very little opportunity to move up.

Advice to Senior Management

1. Try to leave general managers at a centers for more than two years.
2. Create a better program for advancement.
3. Have higher standards for hiring sales directors. Additional training for sales directors.
4. But more resources towards junior bowling programs as they will be the future.

Pros

Good benefits, health, 401 k. Nice employees to work with.

Cons

Very small raises. They had a cap on how much you could make andit wasnt very much at all.

Advice to Senior Management

No advice, i think managment did very well

Pros

Great products, very personable and accessable executive management, company is going in the right direction for long term profitability

Cons

Individual divisions do a poor job communicating with each other
The CEO wants and expects it one way (the right way), but some divisions are not operating like it seems on the outside

Advice to Senior Management

Need more honest and open middle managers and better brand managers

Pros

Good work / life balance

Cons

The organization is vverly bureaucratic.

Advice to Senior Management

Integrate the organization.

Pros

Brunswick was the largest production boatbuilder in the world. It was an exciting place to work. Many employees had worked for Brunswick their entire careers.

Cons

Brunswick was hit especially hard by the economic recession and has closed most of its facilities and laid off the overwhelming majority of both the salaried and non-salaried staff. It was a great place to work.

Advice to Senior Management

Why did we ever sell off Igloo, Mongoose, American Camper and other non-marine assets and buy up every boat company we could get a hold of? Those of us that had been around for awhile remembered the cyclical nature of the boat biz. Why did you overexpose the company and lose for most of us our livelihood?