MEI Reviews

Current Employee – been working at MEI part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Excellent leadership and training support for interns

Cons – Small company but is nationwide

Advice to Senior Management – Great job communicating is a plus

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at MEI full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Strong community culture with exceptional Engineering, Sales, and HR departments. Work hard to consistently manufactor and deliver innovative and quality products. Senior management has proven record for profitability and stability. Compensation and Benefits always rank in top 10 percentile of marketplace.

Cons – People rarely leave before retirement because of the superior culture, product line, and benefits. With such as small attrition rate, it is very difficult to move up within the organization.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at MEI

Pros – Good benefits
Smells good all the time
Has a gym with decent equipment
on site cafeteria
nice security guards up front

Cons – No understanding of providing benefits to the customer
Communication is nil
no standards in place for almost anything

Advice to Senior Management – Spend some time developing procedures, standards and a way of communicating things to people. Everyone seems to be in mtgs but so little information seems to actually get transferred.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at MEI

Pros – The biggest pro was the opportunity to be tranferred for working directly for Mars Inc.
This was reflected in a nice work environment, open doors policy, good benefits as compared to similar companies, and overall positive atmosphere.

Cons – The great issue was the Mexico plant, located in Queretaro, where management was not alligned with Mars Inc phylosophy, and always had a hidden agenda to reduce benefits and compensation to the personnel with any excuse.
This situation worsened when the company was sold by Mars Inc and management was much more transparent on the managerial style, privilging people for the personal relationship with the high management, and not based on personal merit or professional preparation.

Advice to Senior Management – Take a closer look at how things are being managed in Mexico, since local management is sacrificing good elements to maintain the status quo, and avoiding growth of Coordinator and Junior Management levels, which could make evident that better people could be managing the company.

Former Employee – worked at MEI

Pros – Pay and benefits are excellent.
On site cafeteria.
Plenty of parking space.
Work life balance depends on the project that your assigned to, but in general is good.
Free coffee.

Cons – Heating and cooling of the office isn't the best.
The office is structured as an open office environment.
No individual has an office. Everyone sits out in the open.
Noise levels can be very distracting and there is no privacy.
Multiple members of human resources can act in a very unprofessional manner.
The open office environment doesn't lend to a friendly place.

Advice to Senior Management – Managers should enforce company policy.
Dead weight in the company should not just be addressed during layoffs.
New associates should be introduced around to people in their department.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend