Cytec Engineered Materials Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Cytec Engineered Materials as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Really enjoyed the people and the projects that I was working on at Cytec. The relations between the production operators and the engineering staff (at least in my area) were relaxed and went very smoothly.

Cons – Highly bureaucratic decision making process and absolutely huge amounts of red tape and paperwork for even the smallest of projects. And this is coming from someone who know works for the government...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Cytec Engineered Materials full-time

Pros – Company paid technical people well.

Cons – No work-life balance for hourly employees.

Current Employee – been working at Cytec Engineered Materials full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Competitive pay an benefits. It is job !

Cons – Culture of fear. No one has the guts to tell mgt that they are wrong. No ownership of actions by passive resistant employees. High turn over. Horrible at training new comers due to process system. Mgt encourage people to leave if they do not like it. They even annouce people leaving with gusto.

Advice to Senior Management – Decentralize decision making and accept reverse feedback.. Stop spending money on 3rd party services when you have the manpower in house

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cytec Engineered Materials full-time for less than a year

Pros – The salary / Type of work

Cons – Shift Hours and Days of work. Not much appreciation shown for employees!

Advice to Senior Management – Do more for your employees and they will do more for you! Show your appreciation for them more often and they will work harder for you!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cytec Engineered Materials

Pros – exciting industry, great peope and team work

Cons – none this is a challenging company with some issues but overall a fair, exciting place to make a career.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cytec Engineered Materials

Pros – Benefits are much better as compared to companies in competes it against for talent pool in the southeast. But they are very aveage against the aerospace and chemical side companies it competes against for talent nationally.

Cons – Current sr operations managerment has went away from employee feedback and teams to implement changes to work practices and policies. Things are now being driven down from the top instead of a collaborative effort across the teams affected. Key leaders at lower levels of the organization are leaving in mass leaving the direction of the business in chaos.

Advice to Senior Management – When sr leadership was changed in 2009/10, the wrong individual was chosen to lead operations. At some point when you have as many of the strong leaders leaving the company going to work for some of the individuals routed out by the sr leadership change in 09/10 it ought to tell you something. Good people work for good leaders and will only tolerate BS for so long.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cytec Engineered Materials

Pros – flexibility
innovative
good opportunity to grow
communication good
nice location

Cons – benefits nnot competetive
no roll over vacation

Advice to Senior Management – improve benefits

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cytec Engineered Materials

Pros – It is a fun place to work. There is a lot of energy from people surrounding you to get you movitated.

Cons – It can be a chaotic and stressful place to work. People can be abrasive to each other. Shouting and yelling during meeting is common.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep the energy flowing but make it a more respectful workplace.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cytec Engineered Materials

Pros – There is a lot of work to do and Cytec runs really lean which means there will always be a lot of work to do.

Cons – Finance is moving to a shared service center in eastern europe so don't look at staying around if you get hired soon.

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to realize that employees are the number one asset of a company. From the top down, no one cares about work life balance and employees will only give so much before they break.

Former Employee – worked at Cytec Engineered Materials

Pros – Results oriented company
Exciting industry
Solid long term prospects

Cons – Probably too results oriented - managers are terminated very frequently
Extremely poor work life balance (most managers are expected to work 60 hour work weeks at a minimum)
Results from other Cytec divisions are a big drag on performance
Aggressively seeking to dissolve all unions associated with the company to save costs
Way too political
Anaheim facility is a management nightmare

Advice to Senior Management – Improve work life balance
Treat your employees better

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend