Masco Reviews

Pros

Employees who are highly motivated to take on more responsibilty and work hard are often rewarded with future job opportunities. The latest focus on talent development only works for those who chose to persue development (see cons). Great place to work if you are a type A or B personality.

Masco is become much more flexible so employees can enjoy better work life balance. Once a stuffy professional atmosphere, has given way to a collaborative, business casual environment that works.

Cons

Masco is very slow to deal with employees who "coast" and dont' do their fair share.

Advice to Senior Management

The management team is doing a great job, but the layer of management just below needs to sing the same tune. Not everyone is on the same page.

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.

Pros

What you will experience will depend on the business unit you work in. There are many very good people in the ranks. Some business units are leaders in their product categories.

Cons

The company continues to perform poorly. Corporate Senior Management do not appear to have a plan that will put the company back on a path of profitability and growth. The "Masco Business System" is far less tangible than it is portrayed.

Advice to Senior Management

Make the hard decisions and move forward. B School 101 is "Don't throw good money after bad."

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.

Pros

Good benefits, pay okay, alot of independence.

Cons

Job has changed alot to the detriment of District Representatives in MRSS division since March 2010 sales meeting. Most new initiatives seem to come from Lowes. Now, in order to complete even the simplest of tasks, the rep has to "schedule" themselves to do every task by Friday before the week performed in Lowes stores by inputting in co computer what day task will be executed and who they talked to. Monthly weekend sales service is now part of job....

Advice to Senior Management

Required on-line training programs,expense reports,and travel times are all part of the job. This should be part of the District Reps work day time.
If your recent job satisfaction survey shows the majority of District Representative dissatisfaction rating than there is a problem that needs to be corrected.

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.

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

Pros

Good place to work, laid-back atmosphere and lots of friendly people. Would work here again if given the opportunity !

Cons

I really can't think of any at the time. My position was terminated but besides that I don't have any negative view on the company as a whole

Advice to Senior Management

None at the time. Management is very approachable but not a fan of the separate offices, creates a divide that wasn't efficient

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.

Pros

Decent benefits package. On site fitness center.

Cons

Raises/bonues based on how much your boss likes you as opposed to high performance. Morale is very low at this time due to lack of opportunities.

High performers end up moving onto other companies.

Advice to Senior Management

When a manager continually has high turnover within their dept., maybe you should check into fnding out why. Also, perform an employee job satisfaction survey and find out why your employees are so unhappy.