Nalco Reviews

Pros

high base salary, solid benefits, flexible manager, reasonable spending budget

Cons

no company car (mileage is paid though), boring customers to work with (all engineers), no communication across divisions

Pros

Good compensation plan and benefits plan. Local management is very supportive in helping you to achieve your goals with the company.

Cons

Internal communication from the top to bottom needs a lot of improvement. Technology improvements seem to be slower than other companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate information in a timely manner. Even if it is something you expect that your employees will be dissatisfied with.

Pros

Good people. Nice corporate suburban location.

Cons

Now, post merger, the 2012 "synergies" will eliminate more positions. Anyone staying will be doing more work with no opportunities. Nalco is gone.

Advice to Senior Management

Be open with remaining Naperville employees with the real reduction plans for 2012 and forward.

Pros

Good benefits, nice people, recognize for going above and beyond

Cons

Not much room to move around, or advance

Advice to Senior Management

Make people accountable. If they do a good job praise them, if not discipline them. Too many people don't pull their weight, or salary in my opinoin.

Pros

Very flexible in terms of hours, management is totally okay with working 20hrs one week and 5 hours the next

Cons

Not really that challenging and can get very boring being in a cube all day with little to no interaction with other employees

Advice to Senior Management

Give employees a clearer picture of where they stand in the company and if there is any plan to promote them and such

Pros

good training program
supportive environment
professional team

Cons

few career path options

difficult to accumulate a variety of job skills with few career paths available

Advice to Senior Management

provide more career opportunities

Pros

Everyone was helpful and truly cared about their fellow team members as well as getting the job done right. I always felt that my time spent at Nalco was well worth it. I would return in a heartbeat.

Cons

Some days were very long (14+ hours), but that was offset by other very short days. The only other drawback was existing as a contractor within another business, this caused operational conflicts that were fairly simple to resolve.

Advice to Senior Management

Service people are a much stronger connection to your clients than they are given credit for. Furthermore, an understanding that service personnel can establish relationships with the people who matter to Nalco's success more strongly than the local account manager could be a great tool for growth.

Pros

1. Good Study Material
2. Good Working exposure
3. co-workers are good.
4. full liberty to think your ideas

Cons

1. low salaries compared to other companies as well as other internal divisions.
2. little time balance between family & work.

Pros

Great learning experience and there are some good people there. Opportunity is available, but very difficult to obtain.

Cons

Micromanaging, lots of layers of management, snakes, and very difficult to get above "average" on your performance review even when consistently going out of your way to bust your butt which effects your raise. Managers have to like you in order for you to get a good raise. Turnover rate use to be really high before economy tanked. (Now just not enough people to turn over to make it look as bad as it was.) Plus, managers hire incompetent people for the job which I think just reflects some of the managers.

Advice to Senior Management

Advice to management would be to treat people like adults and address situations individually and not groups of 10 when you are intending the message to be for 1 and then overkill the 1 individual with multiple emails. When people put years into the company, support your employee, and instead of turning down people for positions multiple times provide people more guidance to where they would like to be in the company. Do not make it impossible to get above average on a performance review. Giving it to 1 person in a group of 30 or more is not right... More than 1 person busts their butt for the company.

Pros

high level of autonomy; excellent brand in market

Cons

the compensation is inconsistent and no transparent. Most of focus is on internal metric. Senior management very reactive and changes positions on key topics frequently; all targets are set to maximize senior management compensation

Advice to Senior Management

Need to refocus on development of field sales personnel, not internal metric