Reynolds and Reynolds Reviews

Pros

1. Hardware people REALLY care about the dealer/customers. Their hands were tied to do the right thing with the new UCS Management.
2. Company Car, and other benefits are nice. Good pay, but management out of Houston is filled with toads of Bob Brockman (the guy who bought the "old" ReyRey. Its his money though... its his right to run the comapny his way!)

Cons

Autocratic UCS Management. The best "ReyRey" people have left.
Slow to embrace new technology for the customers/dealerships.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't try to control everyone, and everything they want to do in their personal life.

Pros

You'll work with good people, everyone's at least fairly well mannered, good natured, and at least moderately intelligent (except for when it comes to computers). Middle management is hit or miss, but mostly intelligent. Workload is manageable.

Cons

Pay is strongly under par. Still rolling XP on Pentium 4 workstations. Stringent, high strung work environment- it's a running joke that if you make one small screw up, "you're getting fired". Upper management mostly useless and redundant. Benefit discount system broken (relies on BMI instead of true body fat percentage).

Advice to Senior Management

Entirely too many levels of management- company could do with some proper optimization to help break red tape and speed up internal processes that require sign-offs by such-and-such manager or vice-president.

Pros

Wonderful facilities, extra-curricular activities, fantastic people and free beer make RR an enjoyable place to work. On campus gym, sand volleyball, basketball, and softball are a big plus.

Cons

All of the items listed in the "Pros" field are used to distract you from the totalitarian environment and below average pay.

Advice to Senior Management

RR's strategy of keeping young, low-paid employees causes more harm than good by producing a revolving door of associates. Every time someone leaves, you take two steps back in product knowledge and customer service.

Pros

-Departmental managers can be very good, friendly people
-Flexible hours
-On campus dining room allows you to eat lunch tax free
-Lots of company sponsored events
-Lots of charity programs

Cons

-You have to take a silly exam as part of the hiring process that has little relationship to any actual job
-Generally crappy pay
-Zero benefits for part time workers (not even paid holidays)
-Senior Management constantly pushes down ridiculous, oppressive rules (seriously, you think stocking the coke machines with only diet drinks is going to actually make anyone healthier? Have you read about the health affects of aspartame?)
-80s era business culture strictly enforced

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the archaic 80s era business culture. The place is literally turning into another Innitec clone. Dressing up in a suit doesn't make people work harder. Also, put regular drinks back in the dang coke machines.

Pros

nice facility with a workout facility; work not very hard; management doesn't have much expectations

Cons

annual layoffs; little communication from above; no info on company strategy and financial results; very slow to make decisions; little cross functional teamwork; very few promotions or pay raises

Advice to Senior Management

paranoid fearful culture

Pros

The people. They hire good people who work hard. The employees are the only reason I stayed as long as I did.

Cons

No loyalty to their employees. They look for any reason to let people go, no matter how long they have worked at the company. If you do not see eye to eye with a VP, you will be gone in a short period of time.

Advice to Senior Management

you spend so much time and money training good people, it seems like you would try to keep hard working loyal employees instead of looking for reasons to let them go.

Pros

Excellent working enviornment. Tremoundous people to work with. There are alot of opportunities for growth within the company. Reynolds does an outstanding job of promoting fitness.

Cons

Reynolds is a corporate setting. Sometimes you can feel as though you get lost just in the sheer number of people who work at their corporate office.

Pros

- Hires right out of college
- Good way to get hired quickly and get entry level experience
- On-site dining facility
- Paid for overtime hours worked
- Small raises every year

Cons

- Very low compensation
- Poor vacation/holiday benefits (vacation= no days your first year, in your second year, you get one day of vacation for every full month you worked in your first year) (holidays=8)
- Position was poorly labeled (marketed as doing different work than you actually do)
- Little room for advancements or promotions
- Dead end job
- Boring job - very repetitive with little room for creativity or growth
- Poor management
- Little communication from management to employees, or between teams
- Everyone is treated the same (whether you are working really hard or barely working enough to get by)
- No rewards system
- Make promises they don't come through with

Pros

Keeps my lights on, roof over my head, and my stomach full. Also helps pay for some medical insurance.

Cons

If you are good at your job and productive, advancement is hard. Management tried to get problem employees to other groups instead of releasing. Moral is so low you get the sense everyone is in a holding pattern while they look for new jobs. Which brings up another point, finding a new job is near impossible. There is an internal team that looks for peoples' Resumes on job sites. The offending person with either be fired or will have to write a letter of apology to their VP.

Advice to Senior Management

As long as the totalitarian leadership from Bob is still there, it is a matter of time before the company folds. Hopefully the new president is not just a pretty face for the company.

Pros

Field staff, field supervisors, and clients.

Cons

Everything stated in the negative comment is absolutey true. Incompotent leadership in upper most levels. Micro-manage to the Nth degree. No benefits. Dishonest. No customer service.