Con-way Reviews

Pros

Good pay
Good co-workers
Management is supportive

Cons

Can be long hours
Can be a little dirty (truck exhaust)
Not much growth opportunity

Advice to Senior Management

Keep on "trucking"

Pros

Good medical benefits, flexible hours, and friendly working environment.

Cons

Lack of internal opportunity, lack of trainings and developments.

Pros

People used to be great.

Cons

Infrastructure is outsourcing, and knowledge is evaporating.

Advice to Senior Management

People used to be the most valuable asset. Need to get back to that.

Pros

Many of the jobs you can work from home and they have flex hours

Cons

If you are driven for success you will not be liked here. They thrive static process and you cannot shine or you will pay dearly for it.

Advice to Senior Management

Train your management teams before putting them into management rolls. Also learn to listen to your customer more than the complaints of other lesser employees.

Pros

Good benefits, great location, friendly employees. In general Con-way was a solid place to work. It was not difficult to be successful at Con-way.

Cons

Leadership is so vastly varied in their skills. What makes an employee successful in one department is not meeting expectations in another. There are plenty of people who have skated through adding very little value for years and are completely overlooked. Higher level leadership does not "walk the talk." As a shared services organization, many employees were treated poorly by the business partners in the field and leadership did not do a great job of supporting employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Develop stronger partnerships with the field operational leaders and stop letting them walk on you. Understand what your value add is to the business and capitalize on that...what worked in the past is not going to work now or in the future.

Pros

Fortune 500 company, but with the feel of a smaller company.

Cons

More veteran employees are afraid of change and tend to resort to "we've already tried that and it doesn't work here" mentality.

Advice to Senior Management

Foster forward momentum and forward thinking.

Pros

About the only pro is that they allow some (limited, grudging) work from home. Most of their technology stack is very dated and often the interesting work is done by consultants.

Cons

The fifth star is you! Sounds like something you'd say at a child's birthday party. I work in the IT department in Portland, OR. Most of the senior management is weak, from the CIO (who is leaving soon) on down. To give you an idea of the environment, management announced it was laying of 300 people while standing under a banner promoting our Commitment (it's one of the stars!)...then scheduled a "Keep the Dream Alive" event for two months later. All infrastructure (~50% of IT) is going to India, and development is next. I suspect the IT department will be entirely outsourced in the next few years, so I wouldn't plan on much of a career at Con-way. If you join, expect 2.5% raise every year, meager bonus (which somehow is never paid), declining benefits, and a black hole on your resume...uh, yes, Mister Employer, I worked on 2001 technology from in 2010. Very much an old boys' network, who you know sort of place. Advancement to senior-level position is common but beyond that, forget it - and your salary is locked in place forever. Very untrustworthy management - e.g., "we're giving you a 5% pay cut that is strictly temporary", then "we're restoring half of it but I'm afraid the other half is permanent". Great place to work 10-15 years ago...pretty awful today, with abysmal morale. The best and the brightest have long since fled.

Advice to Senior Management

Drop the five stars, Quarterly Leadership, Collaboration Awards, Star Cards, decision making framework, LEAN, and the rest of that management fad mumbo jumbo. Get out of your offices.

Pros

Con-way has an excellent family benefit plan that only costs employees 1% of their pay, as of 2007. Con-way is an industry leader, and a stable company.

Cons

If you like very structured rules, you won't have a problem with Con-way's culture. If you enjoyed or had success in the military, Con-way should feel famiiar. Upper management doesn't support lower management if they have a confrontation with their subordinates.

Advice to Senior Management

Look out for your lower management. They are given alot of resposibility and receive little support from upper management when they have complaints made about themselves by their subordinates.

Pros

Most co-workers were very hard-working good people. The schedule was very flexible which was very nice. Health benefits were good.

Cons

Management is horrible and don't know the day to day activities. As the economy got worse moral was very down

Advice to Senior Management

Pay closer attention to your middle management to make sure they really know what is going on in their department.

Pros

The benefits are very good and affordable.

Cons

People are treated as a commodity.

Advice to Senior Management

Con-way became what it was because of its people. Now people are a replaceable item.