Cooper Industries Reviews

Pros

Great, growing global company. Opportunities to advance.

Cons

Too resource constrained - need to manage the long term as well as the short term

Advice to Senior Management

Focusing on growth requires long term thinking. People resources are a must to achieve long term strategic objectives.

Pros

very hand-on work, which is good for engineering

Cons

office environment needs to be improved

Advice to Senior Management

managers are doing very good job in the global market.
they are also very responbile for the engineers working there

Pros

Locations domestically and international
opportunities to travel visit varying facilities
Time off provided as needed
oppportunites for growth
promotion within

Cons

very long hours
lack of diversity
work overload
ambiguious communication from top leadership
compensation inadequate for roles
slow follow up/through from management

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate expectations clearly to subordinates. Followup with inquires in a timely fashion. Even if the answer is I'll get back to you. Place more value in having a diverse work place.

Pros

The people are great and there is a ton of opportunity to make improvements. Pay is good and time off is easy.

Cons

Upper management does not always make the best decisions when it comes to deciding where and what to invest time and money in.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees, spend money on value added positions, upper management needs to connect more with people on the floor.

Pros

- Promote meritocracy
- Encourage leadership & initiative
- Excellent Sr. management
- Open communication
- Global mindset
- Professional culture

Cons

Need to use more regular & better feedback mechanism for employees. Establish more programs to promote internal talent. Invest globally with full commitment.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to provide better platforms and pursue aggresively global opportunities. Lots of missed opportunities in China, India & South East Asia.

Pros

I love manufacturing, and I was able to drive many projects and processes that helped the working personnel.

Cons

No matter what you do or how good you do it, your job will be exported just as soon as Cooper finds a way to do it

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in America and its workers. You exported tools to China and lost the Lowes account because of it. Cooper Execs are myopic idiots.

Pros

Regarding Cooper Notifications side of Cooper Industries.

Lots of responsibility and a lots of work for those type of individuals who like control. Very fast moving envirnoment, with changes happening every hour.

Cons

Regarding Cooper Notifications side of Cooper Industries.

Management

Unrecognized engineering/manufacturing design problems resulted in project management night mares that management didn't know how to respond to, other than throwing more of it's staff under the train.

Advice to Senior Management

Regarding Cooper Notifications side of Cooper Industries.

Management's answer of having the staff to continously improvise and coming up with alternate work around solutions took up more time than putting the rigth resources on the problem.

Pros

If you want to climb the corporate ladder be prepared to move when an opportunity arises. Good pay and benefits (besides time off)

Cons

Not the most demanding job but there is a lot of potential to move up. Not enough time off. Not very challenging.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to communicate expectations better and expect more out of high potential employees. Don't force employees out if they don't want to move up.

Pros

They have been flexible with my Worklife Balance. They have perks for employees at corporate by giving their employees tickets to the Ballet, Astros, Texans and any other venues that they are members of;.

Cons

Do not pay well! Do not establish pay for performance. Do not like their employee benefits programs. The whole benefits group needs to go!

Advice to Senior Management

Set goals for employees, and if they meet those goals they need to be compensated.

Pros

The rewards are there if you put the effort in.

Cons

It is not a 40 hour per week job...

Advice to Senior Management

Focusing internally is not bad, but don't take your eyes off of the customer.