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Oct 20, 2009
2009-10-20 08:44 PDT
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Arrow Electronics – “Can be a good place to work - used to be a very good place to work”
Pros
Time/life balance good. Company is honest and ethical at least in my experience. Slightly above average opportunity for internal advancement - especially it seems if you are male. Friendly. Has new CEO who might make a difference.
Cons
Too many chiefs, too few indians. Few promotion opportunities for women especially to higher positions. Pay often below industry standard especially in Colorado. No raises, 2 week mandatory furlough, massive cuts to benefits this year, but then many corporations did that in this recession. But it was excessive at Arrow. Never was any bonuses except for Sales and Executive management. Totally different mentality between Melville, NY headquarters and Colorado. Colorado much better place to work. Melville behind times, inflexible, with a "not my job" attitude. Thinking for your self is not rewarded or encouraged, especially in Melville and it is huring the company. Company still has silo business mentality problem. Components division has no idea what other new, more profitable divisions do. Infighting for sales that really hurts the bottom line. Typical corporate problem of less than effective communication. Fails to provide employees with resources to do the job. Getting a lap top is next to impossible. Does not encourge working from home even a little. OLD STYLE THINKING IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM and keeping people around who are no longer effective at their jobs, are you listening Melville? Moral is bad and has been for a long time. More often than not people get jobs here because of who they know in the upper circle, not how good they might be for the company. Old boy network is strongly intact at Arrow.
Advice to Senior Management
Move everything in Melvile to Denver. Reward employees, not just the executives. Bring back the benefits. Promote more women. Give employees the resources to do their job. Stop playing to the market and stock will rise if you support your employees who will then work harder for you. Improve moral by offering bonuses for meeting goals.
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They do allow you to work from home and many people I worked with in the past still do it. In fact I know people that come in at 10:30 everyday and leave at 5:00 PM in Melville since their incompetent boss is in Denver. I hope you do move up in the company and do well but I hope that you leave that company to see what it is like on the outside. Be well!
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Oh and just to give you an example of the "not my job" attitude that I encountered from, all of places, Denver, (gasp). My group was once charged incorrectly from an Accounting manager in Denver. When I questioned these unannounced charges that just happened to slip onto our books at the last booking day of the month, I was told to check with a dept in Melville, which I did. They showed me the data that they had sent to Denver, which still did not justify the charge that we received. When I again questioned the Manager in Denver, I got the response, "Well, I don't know what these charges are for. I just book them based on the info that I get. I don't really know what they are for." Keep in mind that this was a manager, booking charges for which he/she had no idea what they were for. I'm not sure how things are done in Denver, but back in good ole Melville, we are not allowed to touch anyone's P&L or balance sheet without notifying them, in advance, and providing them the backup to support our entry. It's not just good accounting. It's proper etiquette. Believe it or not, our group doesn't look at ourselves as the "Melville" branch. We looked at ourselves as part of a team. The Arrow Team. We don't pass the buck. If something is our responsibility, we fullfill it. If someone asks us for help, we help them, regardless of where they are calling from. I have never turned a deaf ear to someone because they had called me in error. I have bent over backwards to help anyone, regardless of whether or not it was my job. We're all part of the same company, Arrow Electronics. Or at least, we used to be.
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Move everything in Melvile to Denver. (CHECK)
Reward employees, not just the executives. (NEVER)
Bring back the benefits. (They Will but it will cost you about 15% more)
Promote more women. (Arrow hates old people and minorities so women are out of luck)
Give employees the resources to do their job. (HAHAHA)
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Time/life balance good. Company is honest and ethical at least in my experience. Slightly above average opportunity for internal advancement - especially it seems if you are male. Friendly. Has new CEO who might make a difference.
You really must be new. Honest? Ethical? Just wait and you will see. New CEO who might make a difference? Boy you really have a lot to learn, don't believe me, just ask around
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