Richardson International Reviews

Pros

-My department and coworkers were fantastic
-Company culture was great with lots of activities to get everyone involved: Dragon Boat Race, Company BBQ, Christmas Party, ticket draws for concerts and events at the MTS Centre, Halloween Costume contest
-Downtown location, easy to access by bus
-Revamped benefits program
-Newly established gym membership program with GoodLife

Cons

-It's hard to move up in the company as most roles are already filled
-If you have an entrepreneurial mind or want to try new things, you might have a hard time since everyones role is specifically defined since it is such a large company
-No company cafeteria/lounge space

Pros

great work hours, in heart of downtown, structured working environment

Cons

way too much corporate politics, unfair treatment of employees both new and old, unhealthy rude and disrespectful working environment, management of traffic department is fake, sneaky and deceiving. lots of backstabbing amongst employees (including senior employees), survival of the fittest. no compassion about personal family issues from employer. willing to fire you on a moments notice. beware of this company.

Pros

If you want to work in grain handling or crop input sales they might be the only game in town, depending on where you live. However if you can manage drive a bit further to get treated a whole lot better.

Cons

Richardson has no regard for employment law, negotiated employee contracts or even their own Human Resource policy. They do not care about work/life balance, or if they use up as many fresh faced right out of university or college employees. The Human Resources department has no regard for confidential inquiries, nor do they care about the employees side of the story.

Advice to Senior Management

Consider treating your employees with some common decency and respect and maybe you would not have nearly 20 vacancies in Sales across the prairies.

Pros

- The hours are pretty much set in stone... 8:30 - 4:30
- very autonomous
- all the mid level managers are great to get along with

Cons

- pay
- a somewhat boring atmosphere
- no formal performance review system
- weak HR department
- You will miss health club memberships if you had those at your previous employer
- if you are looking to be in top management, in all honesty, you must have been comrads with the president before he was working at JRI... also, you must be a "yes" man
- HR Presidents seem to only last a couple months, especially highly regarded ones... now HR president is also head of the legal department. hmm...

Advice to Senior Management

- give employees an incentive related to company performance (ie phantom shares)
- update employees about company related issues, ie. employee website news feed updated rarely, maybe semi annual, would often go to competitors sites to find out relevant info