Future Electronics Reviews

Pros

great working environment
chance for personal growth

Cons

internal politics at corporate
base salary for sales

Pros

on site gym
good cafeteria
on site medical office staffed with RN
lots of good employees
one of the best Christmas parties ever

Cons

work, work, work till you drop then work some more. Very little recognition from upper management unless you are inner circle. Extreme nepotism of the highest caliber. People hired as department head who have no qualifications or education. Only at Future..... Extreme turnover especially in sales.

Advice to Senior Management

should go back to 9 to 5 as with other large companies. Add more casual attire for the workweek as employee mode is better

Pros

Number of vacation days
Cafeteria
RRSP plan

Cons

Two levels:
1: management gets
2: others give

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees

Pros

Team Work & Support best in industry

Cons

Not much individual career growth

Advice to Senior Management

Package revise

Pros

Free bus (if you call ONE school bus for 1500 employees adequate)
Occasional free xmas concert (in lieu of a monetary bonus which would be much more appreciated)
Free "shopping" for women's clothing on site (if you are in the 10% of employees who actually benefit from this "perk"....more suppliers/customers benefit than employees from what I hear....also, you need to have a penchant for out-dated, size-limited clothing...again, from what I hear since I'm not one of the 10%)

Cons

Nepotism. Brown nosing. Rampant politicking. Rampant gossip. Everyone-for-themselves attitude (and rightly so because no one has your back...unless perhaps to put a knife in it). Little upward mobility: they like to keep you where you are at. Large employee turn-over. No support from ones manager. Managers seem to "pass the buck" on to those below them (when things go wrong, that is.........they are only too happy to take credit even when not a result of their own actions). Expect you to work through lunch/breaks, late hours with no compensation. No daycare provisions.

Advice to Senior Management

No advice. It only falls on deaf ears.

Pros

Good food
money is pretty good you just need to ask for it

Cons

Copied from their website career sections:

At Future Electronics we understand how important it is for our employees to strike a balance between their work and personal lives. To help accommodate our employees, Future Electronics’ offers a variety of services and benefits.

Accommodated Work Schedules

We offer flexible work arrangements, evening shifts, part-time employment and opportunities for students.

completely untrue
8:30 - 5:30 Mon-Fri schedule is "non-negotiable". Forced to take 1 hour unpaid lunch but end up working through it most of the time giving them an hour of free work.

Manager's have little or no education or experience. They get their positions through grovelling and/or nepotism. use their team as scapegoats to bail them out.

Medical insurance is a little weak but extremely pricey

Seem to hire people with enormous skill-sets to do mind-numbingly boring tasks that usually have nothing to do with their experience or education...and don't usually realize it.

Advice to Senior Management

People don't respond well to negative motivation. It gets the job done but not well. Your employees will perform better if they know they are doing well. If you keep telling people they could be replaced at anytime, they will just find other employment before it's too late.

The executive staff does not keep the company alive. It's the people doing the work that does.

Times have changed. People need the accomodated work schedules you claim to provide. We are employees at Future we are not Miller's property.

Pros

-good cafeteria with decent prices
-on site gym
-flexible working hours (for some)
-bus service provided from downtown
-decent pay

Cons

-very little room for advancement
- promotions not based on ability, usually given to employees that suck up to their bosses and are afraid to offer suggestions for improvement
-lack of communication between management and employees

Advice to Senior Management

-listen better to your employees, they may have good ideas to improve processes
-treat your employees with more respect
-pay your employees what they deserve, not the lowest you think you can get away with

Pros

global, innovative, resources and tools modern, many smart people work there

Cons

competitive, hard work required, no slackers

Advice to Senior Management

communicate more, share the knowledge

Pros

good salary and benefits given

Cons

if you do a good job and meet or get over expectation is like if your direct manager have done all the job and you were there just to heat your seat , In real life your boss doesn't really know what are you up to because he is to busy getting a brown nose on a phone call with the head quarter big boss....

More managers titles than operatives.....something wrong.

Mr Miller ( absolutely big respect for him) is throwing away such a lot of money for people that really doesn't do nothing , they just collect numbers from sales and forward them to analyst group..., a easy job paid as gold...

Advice to Senior Management

step up your head Mr YES man , you should be paid to use your brain and gain biz on the market instead to spend hours to find the way to look nice in front of your big boss...number are made by all the sales and marketing on the field....with or without you is the same.....

Pros

good pay
good people
they teach you everything you need to know

Cons

no matter what you do it is not enough
middle management is affraid to say anything to upper management

Advice to Senior Management

do what you say, say what you do