Weyerhaeuser Reviews

Pros

Decent benefits and pay.
Good safety priorities.

Cons

Very process driven and not very customer focused.
Continuous lay-offs due to the economy.
Senior leadership is more reactive than proactive.

Pros

Respect in the workplace
Work-life Balance
Learning Opportunities

Cons

Not entrepeurial
Inertia
inordinate focus on safety detracts from action focus
Recent loss of outstanding performance focused talent

Advice to Senior Management

Reward the folks who have gotten you through the recession. Shrink Woodproducts footprint where it doesn't support Timber base.

Pros

Always changing! Fast paced and interesting.

Cons

Too many changes! Always trying to add too much value.

Advice to Senior Management

Good luck!

Pros

The company has great people to work with, Also the company does a great job to support employees work and life balance.

Cons

The company has a long history (over 100 years). It is often too slow to make a decision and against changes.

Pros

Good people/innovators, wood products "think tank".
Salary - ok.
Good regional managers.
Some of the best sales associates in the business, consistently selling the same products at
higher margins.

Cons

Can't make timely decisions.
Set iLevel residential strategy/course years ago, and won't deviate.
For the size, health benefits lacking.

Advice to Senior Management

Good people are the difference.

Pros

Some good leadership, however, some very poor direct supervisors

Cons

Some direct managers have too much control over layoffs that might impact company success in a negative way.

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Company currently has a reasonable benefit package, although that is changing. Pay scale is adequate but not strongly competitive. However, because the company is struggling through a prolonged downturn, there should be opportunities if you are still employed "when the market turns around".

Cons

The company made a commitment to "all things residential construction", and are vertically integrated (timberlands, building materials manufacturing, building materials distribution, residential real estate) with few options except residential construction.
With the current economic situation, there is not much the rest of the company (not dependent on housing) can do to hold up the weight of businesses that can't make money until residential construction becomes profitable. Just when you think they can't cut anything else . . . they do.

Advice to Senior Management

It was a great place to work. What it looks like you're about to do creeps me out.

Pros

Weyerhaeuser is a flexible and works with associates at a profesional and personal level

Cons

Being a large company, sometimes you just feel like a number to upper managment.

Advice to Senior Management

When making drastic changes to an organization, it's best to interview local associates to minimize putting someone in charge that has no experience to lead/manage.

Pros

Good advancement opportunities
Competitive pay package
Lots of training given
Variety of location and business to choose your advancement opportunities

Cons

Very old fashioned and conservative

Advice to Senior Management

Some sites/locations don't keep up with the times. Don't think progressively and as a result get a group think going and new ideas or not accepted or acted on.

Pros

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Cons

worst insurance i have ever seen in a company this size. they intrude in your personal life whenever they get the chance

Advice to Senior Management

hire professional leaders at the local level. we have makeshift leaders who do not know what they are doing. kd