Reynolds and Reynolds Reviews

Pros

Very laid back, the people there are very nice, but everyone usually just complains about their jobs and says how good it was before the merger

Cons

Basically everything else, terrible pay and takes forever to climb the ladder to an upper job. And even these jobs pay poorly

Advice to Senior Management

As a manager, you are doing a great job to cut costs, but many of the employees are unsatisfied, and moral is a key to employees doing their best work

Pros

The career opportunity is presented on a silver platter but once you're in it's a totally new story. Maybe a good place for graduates.

Cons

Maybe a good place for graduates. The career opportunity is presented on a silver platter but once you're in it's a totally new story.

Advice to Senior Management

They'll praise you as long as they make them look good and stab you in the back as soon as you don't.

Pros

-Somewhat okay health insurance coverage

Cons

- Too much micromanagement. Bosses would be upset if you worked less than one minute and not exactly 8 hours
- give too much work to those who do a good job
- do not show enough employment appreciation

Advice to Senior Management

Go back to school and learn how to really manage a company

Pros

Brockman cant live forever and when things change after he is gone the only direction left to go is up. HQ buildings are incredibly well built and they appear to be a magnificant place to work.. on the outside.

Cons

Pay, vacation, holidays, cruel and careless upper management, "trial period" (where they dont give you vacation days, health coverage or a 401(k) among other things while they frequently unload huge projects on you that require you to work more than 40hrs/week). Also the management enjoys christmas bonuses while regular employees get pay decreases.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop intentionally destroying morale, stop making politics a forced topic at company meetings ("pitstops"), and at least match industry standard for pay. Your legacy will be that of destroying a glorious company... which may be your intent, but not the banks that back you.

Pros

Some of the best people in America work for Reynolds. They may be stifled now, but these guys are the top sales people in America, make no mistake.

Cons

Micro-management is taken to a whole new level. Employees do not feel respected. Customers are definitely not respected. Management is not trusted with even with decisions that used to be sales rep level decisions. A sad company ran by a mean man. Salaries cut in half. Crazy four figure commission charge-backs. You name it, it has happened.

Advice to Senior Management

Do your employees and customers a favor- sell the company!

Pros

Very broad product offering, some of the customer base remains loyal to the company. Probably a good place to start a sales career if you have thick skin.

Cons

All creativity normally associated with a sales job has been eliminated from this position. You are required to perform your job the way the company says to. Salary was cut in half in exchange for unreasonable "activity pay". You are required to call in to an 800# and enter your PIN when you arrive and leave a customer or prospect site in order to get paid. Like punching a time clock for every sales call. Customer policies are rigid and very unfriendly. This place is an experience sales persons nightmare. Seems every quarter since this company was bought things get worse. Very disappointing to sell for a company for 10+ years and see all these negative changes happen. Customers are leaving at a pace I have never seen before. Next it will be the sales force.

Advice to Senior Management

Lighten up on the rigid customer policies, allow managers to actually make decisions. Calling in is humiliating, trust that sales calls are happening. Leave the consistently successful reps alone.

Pros

Good facility at HQ, Dayton OH
Freshers are welcome but the salary is low. Good for experience.
Good 401k plan

Cons

Reynolds was a good company till UCS bought it over.
Very low salary compared to the market.
Bad health benefits. Only non-smoker can work here. Higher cost if you have higher BP, Cholesterol, Blood Glucose, BMI.
Upper management does not respect the employees. They think all employees irrespective of their knowledge or experience can be replaced by freshers.
Very slow(if at all) to adopt new technology. Even the PCs are primitive.
It is a dictator style upper management. No process.
Very rigid rules and it is getting worse.

Advice to Senior Management

Respect employees and their opinions.

Pros

flexible schedule, friendly people, good location, lots work related activites

Cons

pays not too good, raises are a minimum

Advice to Senior Management

reward talented employees

Pros

Has the best product portfolio in ine industry, hands down. Building more and better things everyday, development is strong, ideas are forward tihnking and the direction of product is great.

Cons

Customers do not like the ownership of the company. They do not treat the employees any better than cattle at a slaughterhouse. Pay and benefits have been cut in half of what we used to have. Most people only staying until they find something else. New hire are fresh out of school and totally clueless for the most part. They want mindless drones that will work cheap. People only come here as a stepping stone. I would recommend working elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is inept at best. Take the management manual from 1964 at IBM and you have a good idea of what it feels like to work here. When management realizes its about the people that work for the company and not the company and the product first, then this will once again be a good place to work. It used to be great.

Pros

The people at Rey & Rey were great and the pace was good too. It was a nice place to start for a summer job after high school.

Cons

I did not like the way time was structured. Many supplies were not available when we needed them but the hours were flexible.

Advice to Senior Management

The leadership is good but many of the senior managers were never to be seen nor did it seem like they were keeping an eye on us. However, our supervisors were good at what they did.