Newell Rubbermaid Reviews

Pros

they actually have a great salary for the Houston Area

Cons

The benefits are very expensive and they suck!

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more competent Managers for packaging sales for the Southwest region

Pros

Competitive salary
Solid bonus opportunity
Consistently launching new products keeps things interesting
Company car
Freedom to make your own decisions

Cons

HORRIBLE benefits package
No stock purchase program
Work-life balance does not exist
Overpriced commodity type products are difficult to sell in a bad economy
Quality issues are hurting the company reputation

Advice to Senior Management

1.) Break up Newell it is never going to work
2.) Continue to focus on innovation because the core business will be lost to the Chinese soon
3.) Offer a better benefits package and reinstate the stock purchase program

Pros

Friendly, supportive environment. Management provides feedback.

Cons

Not consistently challenged in work

Pros

The salary, the benefits, the strong brands, the positive culture, the opportunity to move up, the great co-workers, the list goes on...

Cons

Some of the brands haven't embraced the new culture as quickly as most of the brands - drab environment, "gut-feeling" decisions, silos, politics...slowly but surely they're getting there. Also can be very hectic and unorganized, and there is a lack of process in some areas.

Advice to Senior Management

update ALL of the office buildings, train managers on situational management strategies, don't go forward with anything unless research backs it up

Pros

-The headquarters office in Atlanta is beautiful, great people to work with and lots of resources available
-Great area with plenty of useful resources and technology
-The people are phenomenal. A good majority of the employees are quite young, and very fun to be around and willing to help when needed.
-Machine shop available for prototyping and fabrication (has since been relocated off site)

Cons

-Did not always have meaningful projects assigned to me.
-A high tendency, as is common in R&D, for projects to "fizzle out" taking all of your hard work and dedication along with them.
-Bosses did not always do a great job explaining the significance of a project or encouraging completion.
-This company does not invest hugely in innovation, but rather trying to perform as well as the competitor for less. Many of my projects involved trying to replicate technologies of a competitor item.

Advice to Senior Management

-Appreciate your interns more, assign more meaningful projects that have significance to the company.
-Invest more in innovation! Your products will never gain a strong footing if they only do as well as the competitor.
-Stop spending money on the corporate jet. It is wasteful.
-Pay the interns more, Living in Atlanta is not cheap, and it encourages more productivity.

Pros

If people liked you things went pretty smoothly.

Cons

People would ignore very obvious abuses of power.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop getting the company in debt

Pros

Team was good and very cooperative.
Direct supervision was fair, supportive and reasonable.
Relatively low pressure for a call center.

Cons

Corp. policy is to use contract workers with no offer or path of conversion.
Even looking at a member of corporate management the wrong way would get you black-balled.
The mere mention of a complaint about no conversion opportunity will result in termination.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire middle and upper corporate management that is more concerned with accomplishing the claimed mission instead of power jockeys and egomaniacs who act in direct contradiction to all company and and corporate "mission" statements.

Pros

- ability to take on responsibility quickly, if you prove your worth and work hard, there are opportunities to earn and learn

Cons

Hire and fire culture, people can get fired no no obvious reason at all; one must always expect that you can be next

Advice to Senior Management

give real meaning to the "how we work together value". That starts by setting the example for employees at the top

Pros

Manager is awesome, can talk about anything and very flexible but this is on a manager to manager basis. Team is great, alot of knowledge transfer.

Cons

Seems outsourcing is the way to go, Put way too much stress on employees to the point of not being able to concentrate on the tasks at hand, and more on worrying on when we will be asked to leave

Pros

Can make an impact quickly, good team work. Enjoy having my voice heard and opinions considered.
Nice people, and great perks in the Atlanta office - cafe, Starbucks, gym and company store on-site.
The environment is friendly and people work hard.

Cons

Benefits are ok
Training isn't consistent across organization
Work life balance doesn't seem to be handled consistently across the organization