Newell Rubbermaid Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Newell Rubbermaid full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great corporate office, competitive salaries for area, proximity to good Atlanta suburbs, talented workforce in most positions. Tuition reimbursement program for higher learning. Flexible work hours in most positions. Global reach.

Cons – Company is a serial re-organizer. Things have recently started to stabilize under new CEO, but "Growth Game Plan" initiatives haven't made a major impact to many facets of the company yet. Must be self starter to get recognized and promoted. Doing status quo competitently isn't enough to advance. This is both a pro and con.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend more effort developing talent already within organization, more transparency on long term plans from middle mangers to individual contributors.

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

Current Employee – been working at Newell Rubbermaid

Pros – Great opportunity for growth. Good work/life balance.

Cons – Constant restructuring and layoffs bring down morale.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Newell Rubbermaid full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great location
Family Oriented
Summer Hours
Multiple divisions allows for many opportunities

Cons – Constant restructuring (8 managers in 2 years)
Office environment can be political at times

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

Former Employee – worked at Newell Rubbermaid full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Big corporation, standard benefits and pay rates, making efforts to improve their environmental impact, investing on training is limited but increasing.

Cons – Short term policies, not a real mid-term or long term strategy, leaving North America for low pay countries. Turnover for managers and above positions really high (average stay is less than two years).

Advice to Senior Management – Need to invest on new products and generally speaking in R&D. The products being offered by the company were leaders but are now well behind the competition.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Newell Rubbermaid full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good benefits
Nice work environment (corporate headquarters)
OK company discount
Competitive environment

Cons – High turnover
Employee unrest and dissatisfaction is common
Dog eat dog culture
Lack of respect from management
Secretive and elitist management styles are common
Lack of team collaboration

Advice to Senior Management – Lacks candid communication and human-to-human interactions. Instead, bus-throwing and backstabbing excelerate people through the ranks. Hard work and positive results play a distant second to politics.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Newell Rubbermaid full-time

Pros – -Met a lot of great individuals
-Get exposure to different functions
-Ability to move up but only to a certain level

Cons – -Middle management seems to be confused on who top performers are
-Layoff after layoff after layoff (and keep some suspect folks)

Advice to Senior Management – Your new management won't be very effective if all your good employees leave.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Newell Rubbermaid full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Innovative with their technologies
-Always looking at strategies to be a leader in their industry
-Great brands and strong brand recognition

Cons – -Tenure is looked at more than potential
-Lack of work/life balance

Advice to Senior Management – -Learn to focus more on talent improvement than tenure

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

Current Employee – been working at Newell Rubbermaid full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Company car, gas car, make my own schedule, laptop, cell phone

Cons – Limited advancement for moving up,in your career

Advice to Senior Management – Keep the same vision to grow company and open up new opportunities

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Newell Rubbermaid full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Decent Benefits
- Willing to promote early (after about 3 months tenure)
- People are nice.

Cons – - Not a very good work/home life balance.
- They restructure it seems every other year and layoff a ton of people. It's needed though due to the many years of excessive overhead.
- No matter how hard you work for them, they aren't afraid to lay you off.

Advice to Senior Management – When hiring new upper management, you should ensure they understand the businesses and their unique business needs before letting them start cutting positions. Decor GBU is gonna be tough to pull off without a solid customized e-commerce experience built (configurator). And I'm not talking closet configuratiors either. :)

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Newell Rubbermaid full-time

Pros – Being an intern at Newell Rubbermaid was a great learning experience. There was a lot of integration with the other interns and hands on work instead of pushing papers.

Cons – Not the greatest office and the some of the electronics outdated

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