Dal-Tile Reviews

Pros

Stable, financially sound, promotion possibilities

Cons

Waste, underfunded marketing, reactive not proactive, little proactive communication for promotion opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen and ask for more feedback

Pros

Benefits were comparable to other companies; good place to start a career

Cons

Employees get replaced after 5 yrs

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more career oriented training to seasoned professionals to keep their skills sharp instead of getting rid of them

Pros

* Pretty standard benefits
* Opportunities for recent graduates
* Flexible for work/life balance

Cons

* Biggest drawback is the lack of opportunity and growth within certain departments.
* Planning is a revolving door with new graduates coming in, then leaving within 2 years for better opportunities outside the company.
* This departmental turnover is a constant struggle and hurts those that actually stay with the company.

Advice to Senior Management

The most critical recommendation to improve the culture and mentality is to recognize talent, foster continued education, and find opportunities for those talented individuals in other departments.

Pros

Work life balance is very good. They are understanding if your child is sick or you have to leave unexpectedly.

Cons

No promotions are given. Most people work here 10 years and never get a promotion. It's sad that they do not appreciate hard working people. They keep you down and are not positive in helping you advance in your career. They lose a lot of great people because of this.

Advice to Senior Management

Help your employees grow instead of keeping them in the same position for years.

Pros

* Flexible hours; MGMT was ok with coming in past 8 / leaving before 5 so long as the job was done
* Insane discount on flooring
* Possible to transfer departments with no hard feelings

Cons

* Somewhat cliquish environment
* The flexibility in hours is occasionally taken advantage of by some of the staff
* The corp office is in Pleasant Grove

Advice to Senior Management

* Make it known to all employees that Dal-Tile's hiring strategy in certain departments is to explicitly bring in new graduates
* Institute a mentor program for these hires so they do not stagnate

Pros

Tuition Reimbursement, Medical, 401K, Vacation and sick time.

Cons

Too many politics involved in trying to advance in the company. Salary is not compatable with experience, or required duties. Advancement is very difficult. Management has the ability to treat individuals anyway they prefer and he, or she suffers no consequences. Management does not have the ability to lead in a professional environment. Promises regarding increase in salary are never kept! Also, you have to wait ten years just to get three weeks of vacation!

Advice to Senior Management

In order to be a leader, one must set an example for their employees. Management might want to consider setting an example for their peers to learn from. When employees work hard and go above and beyond recognition should be awarded. Listen and learn from employees rather than assuming you have all the answers. The lines of communication between management and employees should be open and comfortable! Allow employees with the will to learn and advance have the opportunity to do so. Do not discriminate based on personal agenda. Remember people treat you the way you treat them. When you show no respect, or conern, then you get none in return! Want to create a winning team? Then it starts with character, dignity and respect! Get some!

Pros

Good Compensation, good 401k program. They promote from within.

Cons

Must be willing to move around to move up within the company.

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

great people, great products, good benifits

Cons

corporate mandated product transfer methods

Advice to Senior Management

listen to your coworkers

Pros

Solid company with good management and many longtime employees. There are several great long time employees to learn from. Good working environment and good HR involvement.

Cons

Lower wages in skilled positions tend to make the retention of some excellent people difficult and cause current strong people be constantly looking. In difficult times the political situation within the company is a cause of stress in many areas. It seems to be company policy to wait till the work load on a department is experiencing diminishing returns to add resources so the people are always playing catch up causing undue stress.

Advice to Senior Management

Realize that in some situations keeping the head count down actually ends up costing the company in lost revenue due to an inability to handle the workload thus missing out on possible sales.

Pros

Great company with innovative products. Sales force is outstanding and sales service centers are second to none in the industry. Good benefits with 401k, education assistance, insurance that is comparable to most companies.

Cons

Corporate offices are located in an unattractive neighborhood. Advancement is only based on "good old boy" principles where managers move up from job to job never accomplishing anything. Anyone below management level or not in the good ol' boy network will not advance in the company. Rarely does management give advancement to the most qualified

Advice to Senior Management

Shake something up. Quit having the same management team move around from job to job. Get in some fresh blood with new ideas. Quit acting scared all the time to shake things up with a new idea or approach. The stock price is not the most important thing in the world. For an industry leader for the most part you act like the scared kitty cat.