Hunter Industries Employee Review

I worked at Hunter Industries

Pros – The best reason to work at Hunter Industries is if you are a self-starter, and you someone that wants to promote self-growth and personal career development. The best part of Hunter Industries is that you will get to watch your ideas and plans come into fruition and will be aggressively pushed by mid-management as part of their own personal agenda. Upper management will never know of your contributions or responsibility for the introduction of the new ideas and concepts; therefore you are insulated from upper management as a result of this culture.

Middle management "empowers" the workers by allowing someone to do all of the feasibility, research, and risk analysis. Once again, Hunter Industries is great for allowing you to do this. I would never have been able to make it to my current career level without the help of Hunter Industries middle management.

The corporate lifestyle is interesting as well. Let's face it, anyone that has worked there truly appreciates the profit-sharing program. After all, December is great because your low wages are subsidized by all of your hard work during the calendar year. I chose to look at it as a "personal savings program."

Cons – The downside of employment at Hunter Industries is the lack of worker appreciation, promotions, and most of all the ability to have a normal family life. Not many places will force someone to come into work within three hours of their wife giving birth to their new baby, but the Hunter Industries I.T. Department will.

There is not a single department within the corporation that has not acted in this manner. Whether it is the Engineering Department with the passing of an immediate family member, Sales Department when someone admits they have a chemical dependency issue, etc. The list is long yet distinguished.

Personal vendettas are the Achilles heel within the deeply entrenched middle management staff. Anyone that has worked there has to admit that "middle management runs the company." While this phenomenon is interesting from a case study standpoint being semi-militaristic and all but; is only in practice because upper management is never allowed to create or even have a relationship within the work environment of the subordinates below these managers.

Advice to Senior Management – Please review the policies and procedures set forth by your middle management. It is understood that there are many personal relationships within the company that would not be tolerated anywhere else; however it is part of the accepted corporate culture. With that being said, why not override your middle managers and encourage some of your self-starters to come forward and be molded by the leaders within the environment? Even though some of your best upper management has left of their own accord does not mean you are not allowed to rebuild.

Project Management could be a good place to begin with your Documentation Control Group. Do not ignore the other groups because of not being within the "power lime-light" that exists within the company, their ideas are just as valid as the "favored" groups within the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend