Eastman Kodak Reviews in Vancouver, BC Area

Pros

They treat you well and there had some good benefits now strip to the basics but still better than others companies I research

Cons

Big company, your work may not be very visible, customers complain about fees and starting to drop contracts

Advice to Senior Management

More workers less management, listen to employees

Pros

Workplace Flexibility
Lots of work in the project queue

Cons

No money for training
No money to improve on out-of-date back office technologies
Salary Freeze

Advice to Senior Management

Look at the SG&A managers as I do not believe that they F.A.S.T message is making through this level of middle management

Pros

Interesting projects and large base of expertise from which to gather information

Cons

Large company in massive cost cutting mode. Decisions are entirely numbers focused and senior management does not seem to have faith in the individual business units' ability to run a sustainable business over the long term.

Advice to Senior Management

Being entirely numbers focused will force many product lines to fail. This will inevitably result in outsourcing of products from competitors. This is not sustainable in the long term.

Pros

Kodak offers great development opportunities. They have invested a lot of time and money into my career growth and development. On the job you get exposure to state of the art business practices and fundamentals that can be transferred to any organization. The people are also great at Kodak, there are very few tyrants and ego maniacs in management. The culture is very open and honest where micro-managing is non existent.

Cons

There is a trade off in working for Kodak, you get great training but poor compensation. Another downside is being a Canadian employee, it would appear they are trying to pull all the business back to Rochester or sending it to Asia. There won't be much of a Kodak presence in Vancouver in the years to come.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to give back to the market that funds the majority of the cashflow sheet. Keep some jobs in North America!

Pros

Here in Vancouver we tarted out as Creo and were acquired in 2004. As time moves on the culture has changed a little but the senior management here has not. The culture is one of shared information, shared direction and shared success.

Cons

Rochester. Who knows what they do or what they are thinking.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the people doing the real work and get rid of so many levels of management.