Crane Co. Reviews

Pros

Flexible hours
Nice people around you

Cons

Promotion is not given based on Hard Work

Advice to Senior Management

Hard work does not recognize

Pros

Benefits are OK, 401K and PTO's are a plus

Cons

Philosphy of Management is, "Do as your told regardless if it is right or wrong." Stop management by fear. Extremely poor treatment of employees. Poor communication.

Advice to Senior Management

You have lost credibility with your employees.

Pros

Good pay and good benefits

Cons

Management is disrespectful, stress level through the roof, no work/life balance, management is never satisfied

Advice to Senior Management

Too many managers, not enough workers,

Pros

- Management is receptive to change
- Work-life balance
- Good work environment
- Strong support from colleagues

Cons

- Management lacks big vision or does not share with employees
- Lot of effort is put to just maintain status quo.

Advice to Senior Management

1) Build a strong plan to integrate acquired companies or it will end up eroding value.
2) Have a great vision so that people feel proud of working for Crane.

Pros

Good salary and benefits, Great co-workers who are always ready and willing to help one another. Great products.

Cons

Still an "Old Boys Club" even though management tries to deny it. Management can be disrespectful and lack management skills. No Work/Life balance. No chance of advancement. Stressful, authoritative structure. Too many managers not enough workers. Most employees are dissatisfied and waiting for the opportunity to leave when the economy improves.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees. Set realistic goals. Show some respect.

Pros

You get challenged and have opportunities to learn.

Cons

Can be overburdened with work.

Pros

nice company, good people, beautiful products

Cons

laid off along with many others

Pros

Strong compensation package. Willingness to invest in the business and business improvment. Intelligent workforce and management. Well documented policies. Global opportunities.

Cons

Below average relocation policy. Rigid view of career progression. Limited training and development support. Little to no personal connection between the organization and employees (at all levels). No real company culture, more a combination of many organizations under one umbrella. Limited ability to move between companies.

Pros

My manager was stellar. HR does a good job trying to identify and promote good talent but some departments still try to keep their A players for themselves. Top management (ie Fast, Mitchell, duPont, etc.) are second to none; ethical, honest, hardworking, and have the company's best interests at heart. Overall, a great place to work with small pockets of localized bad behavior but you'd find that everywhere. They're doing a great job at ferreting those out and working to resolve the issues.

Cons

Slow moving and slow to embrace anything outside the norm; working from home, telecommuting, etc. Despite much talk of initiatives to promote from within even if a stretch for the candidate, it didn't seem to happen much.

Advice to Senior Management

While strides are being made in communication to the field and sharing the wealth during up times while top management tightens the belt during the lean times, management needs to remember that everything they do is watched and scrutinized. The corporate jet is a major pain point in the field and while it may be necessary, we don't feel that Mr. Fast's explanations were sufficient when asked. Many felt like questions surrounding the perq were brushed off. In years when we were charged with cutting costs and every expenditure had to be justified down to the dollar, it seems that cutting out something as costly as the jet would have saved ten fold the costs we were struggling to cut over the course of two years.

Pros

Benefits are pretty good at this place

Cons

Lack of support is not always there

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the employees better.