Cenveo Reviews

Pros

Lot of good, hardworking people.

Cons

Top management changes with the wind. Top management has a short life span unless you play the politics.

Advice to Senior Management

Think long term and not short term (90 days or less). All thinking is short term due to being a public company.

Pros

Independent work is encouraged. Flexible about work-at-home/work-at-site.

Cons

Company (publishing services section) is not pursuing new business. Losing contracts, losing people.

Pros

Some of the companies Cenveo has bought may have some future, but unfortunately most are tied to envelopes and printing, two dying markets. Some of the employees are very good at what they do, and are willing to work long hours to get the job done correctly. Also, some employees have many years with Cenveo and the companies it owns.

Cons

A life of living quarter to quarter, wondering when the next axe, either pay reduction or unemplyed, will fall. Morale is very poor. Everyone I know is looking for a new position at another company. Salaries were cut by 10% over two years, and later a promise was made to reinstate the salary, but nothing has happened. also, match was taken away from 401k. There will be a mass exodus as the job market improves.

Pros

The pay was about average for the Saint George, UT area but still low on a national scale. Vacation time and overtime was given.

Cons

Inept managment, stagnant wages, constant raising of benefits cost, poor work environment, lack of motivation to do a good job and low employee moral due to the mismangement at the facility.

Advice to Senior Management

Clean house, starting at the top and work your way down. Plant Manager should of retired a couple of decades ago. Stop hiring relatives, married couples and friends , it just makes for a hostile work environment due to the constant drama it creates. I understand times have been tough the past few years economically but explore other ways to cut cost besides always going to your employees to acheive this (lost of hours,temporary layoffs, etc). Your employees are not stupid, they see while your cutting their hours the company is out spending millions on new machinery and buying out other companies. It just takes a minute to find your business transaction posted online, we are not all dumb grunt laborers like you think. Also try treating people with some respect and would it kill your multi billion dollar corporation (Cenveo) to "at least" give your employees an Christmas card around the holidays??

Pros

-Pay was adequate
-Vacation package was adequate
-There are some members of management who care about the job and their subordinates (though too few of them)
-Flexible when it comes to time off

Cons

-Pertinent information is poorly disseminated
-Total disconnect between sales, estimating, production, and billing, often resulting in lost revenue for the company
-Lack of communication between print and content sites causes issues
-Multiple downsizings have affected quality control, thereby perpetuating further downsizing
-High-school mentality in many members of management and staff
-Management does not properly evaluate the capabilities of staff members, therefore putting responsibilities in the hands of less competent staff due to seniority

Advice to Senior Management

Get back to basics with Account Managers billing their own jobs, and thereby understanding where revenue can be gained and lost. Seriously review internal communication processes to cut down on errors, misunderstandings, and customer frustration. Put ALL members of management through mandatory management techniques classes.

Pros

this reviewer works at Cadmus, a company purchased by Cenveo in 2007. At the time of the purchase, we saw major layoffs of long-term employees. We know very little about hte new parent company. Locally, Cadmus permits schedule variations of work times, including work at home. Certain departments are relatively "hands-off" on overseeing work.

Cons

some departments are definitely NOT hands-off, but are micro-managed by dept. leader. There is very little opportunity to move up on career ladder, and there is no encouragement from within the company. The parent company in Connecticut, a commercial print company, seems to have little appreciation for the kind of work we do here in Maryland (production of scholarly books and journals), and the emphasis has moved from quality of product to fastest and cheapest. Employees are treated, basically, in the same way. Pay raises average approx 1.5%, when given. No company contribution to 401K plans, and no incentive (monetary or not) to remain with Cenveo. A standing joke among employees is that one day we will be charged rent to work in our cubes....

Advice to Senior Management

Find out what your company in Columbia does (scholarly journals and books), recognize the hard-working people at the below management level.

Pros

The location is fairly good.

Cons

The are more downsides than I can shake a stick at. I was expected to know everything about the company within a week, which is not realistic. My computer crashed at least three times per week. I was screamed at daily for events that were beyond my control.

Advice to Senior Management

Be realistic! A person cannot know the politics of a company within a week. Drop the job shadowing technique altogether because it streses out the former employee and gives the new employee way too much information at once.

Pros

Excellent co-worker rapport and support. People really banded together to try to create a positive environment.

Cons

Tons of work. Way more than one person could conceivably do. Lots of unrealistic expectations and very little respect where vacation is concerned. I remember getting calls while on vacation about a meltdown at work. The environment was one of anxiety.

Advice to Senior Management

Your workers are not firewood so work on tactics to avoid burn out.

Pros

As long as Burton runs the company, there are no good reasons to work for Cenveo.

Cons

There is no job security at Cenveo. Burton has cut employees pay and benifits, and has closed most union plants.

Advice to Senior Management

None