Ingersoll-Rand – “Your standard big company that operates from the top down.”

Pros

The benefits (health, dental, 401K, etc.) are very respectable. They are stepping up there efforts to promote innovation within the company and increase participation certainly a good direction for the company.

Cons

The facilities and offices are dark and have not been updated in 40 years it seems. The company has kept around many of its old guard and it is going through a bit of a transition period so there is friction between the old and the new. They offer many, many online courses but it becomes very difficult to be sent to traveling location whether outside the company or on the IRU campus in Davidson.

Advice to Senior Management

Their management style is completely top down and they need to do a much better job at managing from the bottom up.