Core-Mark Reviews

Pros

The company is growing substantially at the time. They have a lot of employment opportunities. Many different areas to live and work.

Cons

The compensation packages seem to be substandard to other professional sales and management jobs. They tend to jump into things and then try to fix the problems that arise.. Not prepaired for the growth that is asked for in most cases!

Advice to Senior Management

Build a stronger foundation before bringing on new business. When you add "weight" to a shaky foundation you cause many problems that could have been avoided and spend countless hours/dollars fixing the situation.

Pros

employees are friendly, opportunities to improve your performance through feedback from middle management.

Cons

organization is very top-heavy. difficult to get promoted unless you're part of the "in" crowd. Little to no interaction with and support from upper management. Work can become tedious and in my position, is not challenging.

Advice to Senior Management

Merit based promotions. Stop creating positions for people who have no real function in the company.

Pros

3 day work week, ability to make $60,000 a year and good benefits .

Cons

Management dont understand and listen to drivers and wanting a day off is like pulling teeth.

Advice to Senior Management

Experience in the transportation industry important, when in management is vital, in keeping drivers happy and keeping drivers commited to a company.

Pros

Lower level management
Ability to move up

Cons

Long hours
Low pay
Lots of driving (300+ miles a week)

Pros

the health benefits and 401k match is great, vacation and sick time available are in line with industry standards for those who are not union.

Cons

i have to agree with the other reviews numerous ways to be fired ,and the turn over is profound even in this economic enviroment they still cant retain employee's. i am still employed there but i have been a witness to this and find it to be in shamefull.the way management carries itself in the warehouse is childish, unethical, and unreponsive to issues of safety concerns, and daily circumstances that arise. and the generall way in which people are treated there is very poor. we have had monthly meetings with the division president and every time someone tried to tell him about the warehouse management he just says not here and move one to the next person even though multiple individuals have tried to inform him of the very poor management. now we believe the only option left is to become union.

Advice to Senior Management

people are gonna be sick, be late,have to leave early to take care of family and themselves. dont forget we see you leaving early and comming in at different times, we dont have the luxery of bringing are childeren into the building while we work.

Pros

Core-Mark International is a place to start your career if you were fresh out of college. You do the grunt work, learn the ropes just enough so that you can look at opportunities else where. Yes, even the CFO admitted that when I left.

Cons

The style of work is very old school. Technology is bare bones. Process improvements are unheard of. There is no work life balance. Management in the finance/accounting team is horrible. I remember my first day on the job and an employee, someone I barely even knew, came up to me and said be aware of her or that. The turnover is extremely high so makes it very challenging to train new people because they would leave after a few months on the job!

Advice to Senior Management

Get yourself a better HR department and make your employees, at least, feel like they are your assets.

Pros

The health , dental & life benefits are a plus ! If you make it past the 90 day period which is highly unlikely !

Cons

The downside of working for this company is that they have a very high turnover rate due to poor management ,low wages, & the many ways to be fired. If you plan on working for this company be prepared to be threatened that you can lose your job daily. Also prepare to work under extremely harsh conditions. Bottom line is unless you are desperate for work look somewhere else, because at Coremark you are just a number that comes & gos -No Respect.

Advice to Senior Management

My advise to Core-Mark leadership is to start treating your employees with respect by raising the starting wages. Also remember that there are real people with family's & lives working for you & they need to have better working conditions if you want to one day start keeping people.