Masco Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Masco

Pros – Masco used to be a great company and still has a number of good people. Pay and benefits were once highly competitive.

Cons – The economic slowdown has hit this company hard and barely resembles the same place I worked at. Management used to promote a family atmosphere, that no longer exists.

Advice to Senior Management – Pray that the housing market improves and get back to be the kind of company Ray Kennedy used to run.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Masco

Pros – I was able to travel the country.
Reasonably fun when not bored to tears.
Great benefits.
Managers were always available by phone.
Company provided laptop.

Cons – LOTS of travel.
Low pay.
Any time i wasn't traveling, I would be stuck helping a local rep and in only one store at a time... BORING.
Company did not provide phone, even though it was a traveling job.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't force in town time to be spent a one store.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Masco

Pros – Great company with great products. Lots of paid days off. Benefits were good.

Cons – Heavy office politics. to work with the right person is important.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to encourage more of innovations. Management needs to open to more fresh ideas to make the company more energetic and globally competitive.

Former Employee – worked at Masco

Pros – nice office
good benefits
nice vacation package

Cons – no career planning for employees
very few promotional opportunities
they used to have an onsite MBA program but most of the graduates left due to no opportunities, so they discontinued the program

Advice to Senior Management – need to implement career planning

Former Employee – worked at Masco

Pros – Masco is fairly good on work life balance. They understand that people generally have a life away from work and are accommodative on time off and professional development.

Cons – Communication is poor and the "top-down" organizational structure makes it difficult to understand what the strategic vision of the company is. Thus, on a day-to-day basis, its hard to see how your work is relevant, and you don't really feel like you're making a difference or your position is important.

Advice to Senior Management – Take the time to get to know what lower-level employees are working on and have some dialogue with them on what they can do to help the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Masco

Pros – Opportunities to learn the overall operation of the industry. Excellent work times 8-5. Human resources does a great job of explaining benifits and is willing to help employees achive their goals. If you have the drive and ambition to succeed run can learn a lot about the business because other employees are willing to help and give you information about the company

Cons – Communication among employees and management. Employees are not sure of the goals and management doesn't give an explanation of the current goals. No system of measurment for the daily activities within the organization. Management allows products to be back ordered for up to a year and by the time the product is received customer has moved on. Company culture is not strong because of the management/employee disconnect.

Advice to Senior Management – Get out of the office and on to the floor of the business. Management does not understand the employees and doesn't look for opportunities in the organization and for its customers.

Current Employee – been working at Masco

Pros – Great people to be around, most of the staff are easing going and laid back particularly outside of the office. Broad range of staff as well, which gives many different viewpoints. Many get a laptop for work. Staff is not competitive with each other, and are striving to work well and develop the business.

Salary is okay, not wholly satisfied. Bonuses and raises are based primarily on performance, but during the downturn who knows. Great cafeteria, the food and staff are really nice. Masco also offers a full gym with several treadmills, bikes ellipticals, free weights, and machines. There is an on-site certified trainer from 8:30-5. Also, offers work out classes.

Cons – Many cuts have been made and job security is a little frightful. There is little feedback or communication on individual performance. It would be nice if there were career mentors available. Tasks seem to be limited to the scope of management, there is little room for individual innovation or thinking. Its definitely a top down approach with a new flavor of the month.

Advice to Senior Management – Considering the economy and being centered in housing, I don't think there is much more they could be doing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Masco full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Decent benefits.
Fair wages.
I loved the people I worked directly with. There are a lot of talented people that work hard and truly want to see the company succeed.
Their inefficiencies are probably not uncommon in large holding companies

Cons – Masco failed many years ago to set a course to win through innovation and change when the economy was starting to go south. Instead it seems that they scaled back, and are waiting for business to come back - and it is not going to. Inaction will be their true failure.

On-boarding process is terrible - no company background, no clarity on how your role fits into the bigger picture.

For me personally there was lots of overtime put in (nights and weekends), a lot of travel, and no policy for comp time.

Unlike other large corporations I have worked for, there is no clear vision, or message for how the company wants to grow and win.

Although many play in the same space, the business units do not communicate with each other, share learning, or partner to create bigger wins - this creates doubling of efforts, waters down brands, and shows weakness to retailers.

You can be at this company for years any not have awareness of what corporate services are available, what businesses Masco owns, or what research & development projects are in the works.

Advice to Senior Management – Create a clear vision for all Masco employees. Force collaboration between businesses to create one pipeline for products and service offerings. Create clear brand differentiation with your many competing brands.

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 Masco full-time

Pros – great work, learned alot, work independantly

Cons – none at this time to

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

Pros – Great company to work for. strong leadership team, Good brand. Great team environment. Positive future.

Cons – nothing really at this time to say, except the operating companies are not connected as much as they could be

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work

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