Newell Rubbermaid Reviews

Pros

Smart people working hard to grow the brands and the company. Great location in Atlanta, GA. Lots of opportunity for the company to grow based on a strong portfolio of brands.

Cons

Housing and consumer confidence have an impact on growth opportunities. All cube office environment can become noisy at times and privacy is at a premium.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to improve the benefits package and build synergy across the company.

Pros

Facility
Support of development of people through training, teambuilding, etc - willing to spend money to support

Cons

Far too focused on internal hoops to jump through, politics
Significant time/effort/resources spent on activities that do not add any stockholder value at all
Some business units ignore major decision impact on people / ramp up time / etc
Inability to prioritize / focus on the critical few
Extremely bureaucratic - far beyond companies that are significantly larger

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to prioritize and focus resources on activities that are important and add stockholder value. Reduce the bureaucracy and non-value add activities.

Pros

Good employee benefits
A huge array of training and developmental opportunities available
An overall good company with dozens of divisions within the company

Cons

Senior management issues (no accountability)
Lack of growth opportunities
Failure to train managers to expected level of success and misleading feedback

Pros

Very solid benefits and compensation packages (albeit diminishing every year)
Good networking and opportunity to venture in many directions.
Strong brand presence

Cons

Very political climate
Constantly changing personnel
Poor feedback and performance review process
Lack of corporate value

Pros

Leadership is moving the company in the right direction. Great company with great brands. Company still feels small despite been a $5.6 billion conglomerate. Decent collaboration between the companies.

Cons

Limited ability to move to other roles so you can get boxed in the role. Unfortunately, the company tends to take the "cheap" way when it comes to resources.

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage career growth and promotion.

Pros

Decent pay. easy job, direct responsibiliy for some areas of development. Little travel but also very little actual job satisfaction

Cons

no flex time, no rewards and very little recognition. set hours of 8-5, little vacation time and little individual ways.

Advice to Senior Management

offer more of the little things like vacation, flex time, personal time etc. Offer more regular pay reviews and rewards, bonuses.

Pros

-Beautiful office, cafe, gym, Starbucks cafe, product showroom, clean and wired meeting spaces.
-Pretty interesting span of work
-Employees and coworkers are nice and friendly
-Appreciation shown for your work by your coworkers (management is a whole other story).
-Good benefits package.
-Good company product discounts

Cons

-Management doesn't always show appreciation for a job well done.
-Can be difficult to balance work and home life. 40 hour + weeks are very common. Regularly put in 10-12 hour shifts with no compensation time.
-Management is very political. It can be difficult to get promoted if you aren't willing to "play the game."
-Management is a revolving door of people at the higher level. Leadership can be uncertain.
-Workload through our group sometimes feels like quantity over quality. More eager to push through projects in a hurry then spend adequate time on them to make sure they are correct.

Advice to Senior Management

-Allow for a 360 review of management. It would be very helpful for workers to provide feedback in an anonymous way. Management provides feedback to their reports, but there is no way for the reports to review them.

Pros

Most people here are inviting and great to work with. The location was nice. The job was average, but could be stressful.

Cons

The pay. The feeling of pressure that you had to work 60 hours a week or you weren't good enough. No opportunities for advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

Tell people what is going on. Recognize people for real results. Allow for professional development and encourage it! Actually do performance appraisals.

Pros

HQ building is great, the people are really good, very competent leadership and the work is rewarding in that you are making products that change people's lives. They have employee resource groups for African Americans, women, Hispanics, Asians and GLBT. Managers seem to be in touch with what's going on.

Cons

Pay is not quite on par especially when you consider how hard you work. Benefits are very expensive. Almost an up or out culture. There's a very short leash if you don't perform. Like a number of companies who talk work life balance, it's not a reality.

Advice to Senior Management

Do more to make work-life balance a reality.

Pros

Great people - very friendly and supportive. Good opportunities for learning. The basic facilities offers are very nice and clean. Company respects employees.

Cons

Situations can be overwhelming at times. They do not offer the most competitive salaries. Luck plays a huge role in getting good opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer more development and growth opportunities for individuals. Be a little more flexible in task and function assignment. Allow people to choose there career focus.