Fiberweb Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Fiberweb full-time

Pros – good people to work with

Cons – so many restructuring, no consistent vision
too many changes on the higher management as well as middle management

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Fiberweb full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – good benefits some good people no managers

Cons – any and all most discriminating company ever worked at

Advice to Senior Management – read a resume dont just promote your friends and relatives or like if they have a tight little ass like the temp turned mananger in shipping

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Fiberweb full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Laid back, relaxed environment most of the time.

Cons – Management has the workaholic mentality at 50-60 hrs per week. No room for growth / raises.

Advice to Senior Management – Overzealous budgets by customer need to be fixed. Quit working so much and see your family.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Fiberweb

Pros – Fiberweb is an interesting place to work and there are constant changes to make the exciting.

It does have strong international ties.

Pay and severance are very good.

Cons – The constant churn is very off putting. This change not attached to the nature of business and the world we live in. There are regular universal restructurings with Presidents, Directors and structures changing with the seasons.

Advice to Senior Management – Consistency and the ability for employees to see a positive future state are critical. You have to pay more for talent because of your reputation for purging.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Fiberweb

Pros – This is a very difficult question to answer. If you are one of the few employee's in the U.K. you live fat off of the rest of the company.

Cons – Reorganize at least 2x a year, no constance of purpose, no direction in the market place or in manufacturing. CEO is a youthful throw back of the 80's on an personal ego trip. He has no understanding of the technology or markets. Additionally the board members that have been choosen to give balance to the CEO are equally inept. This is a company that will emploid. There is a large fraternity of excellent managers that have been laid-off or excused in the past 5 years.

Advice to Senior Management – Manage the business based on the markets that they serve, develop a balanced strategy (20% specialty and 80% commodity) and resource them appropriately.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Fiberweb full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Fiberweb promoted within when able to find the talent, even undeveloped talent, and would provide opportunities to grow in those roles and in the understanding of the business. They also had employees who were helpful in day-to-day business activities.

Cons – Unfortunately the business was more focused on paying off debt and not expanding the business so sites were closed and the remaining businesses were tasked with difficult profit expectations by shareholders.

Advice to Senior Management – Employees see the need to pay down debt but also need to have hope in the business. One way is to see the business grow.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Fiberweb full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Outstanding opportunity to develop skill sets
- Relatively flat management for a global company
- Opportunity to work internationally and locally
- Implemented XL training program for high potential employees.
- Company is trying to do the right things from a business, marketing and HR perspective.
- Good severance benefits

Cons – - Management churn in the mid-senior ranks is constant.
- The commoditized, complex nature of the product mix has resulted in missed targets and failures to deliver.
- Corporate problems have frequently resulted in non-payment of bonuses.
- Expectation that employees are expendible

Advice to Senior Management – - Stabilize the base business and grow from there
- Do not over-promise and underdeliver

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Fiberweb

Pros – -great people, particularly at the primary level
-solid products
-stable business
-career opportunities through continual changes in organization and management
-customer facing roles learn business negotiation skills through aggressive treatment of customers by management
-management is not afraid to try new approaches

Cons – -lack of stability at senior management level
-lack of a customer-centric focus
-hire and fire mentality promotes so much turnover that long-term progress is stiffled
-organizational changes bring management that don't understand the business from the ground up
-management cites the desire to change the culture and create a place that people want to work, but act in a manner that favors too much change
-strategy changes and lack of top-down consistency are very frustrating to rank and file

Advice to Senior Management – -foster more management stability with clearer upward paths
-align incentive structure with personal goals
-promote to management ranks from within

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend