Algenol Biofuels Reviews

Pros

- Smart, driven colleagues who are passionate about their work - Most employees re-located to the area to work at Algenol, so there is a strong friendship community at work - Not a lot of bureaucracy/red tape - easy to get answers quickly - Generous salary/benefits - Necessary resources (personnel, equipment) are always made available. - Corporate efforts are made to foster positive culture - The potential of this...

Cons

- Because the company is a private R&D company, there is no revenue and the operating budget is dependent upon fundraising. While the company has always been successful in this regard, it can be unsettling to not know from year to year how this is going to work out. - Some Managers are strong and some are weak; the employee experience with Management is inconsistent depending on which dept you work in.

Advice to Management

Communicate all the way down the chain. Sometimes communication seems to stop at the Director level.

Pros

some managers are great and work hard.

Cons

The company will be lucky to be open in 6months with how it’s being executively managed. The single investor they have is an unstable emotional wreck who changes his mind about how much money he’s offering and who will be employed every week. They are laying people off because of “money issues” yet the investor turned CEO is offering to higher outside people or give more money to select few people staying.. They are paying...

Advice to Management

Get it together! You’re losing really great people and the ones left are way overburdened.

Pros

Talented coworkers to work with

Cons

Poor focus and direction of the company

Pros

Flexible hours for students, learned allot of things pertinent to my career and got to hone allot of my skills I learned in school.

Cons

Not much, just an average amount of workplace drama.

Advice to Management

N/A

Pros

It was great working with a group of incredibly talented people

Cons

Confidence levels in employees was low due to issues with management

Pros

For a company of its size and still in full R&D with investor only backing the pay and benefits are really good. Lots of great people who are very smart and educated. Employees are willing to put in the time and effort to be successful.

Cons

The pool of good people is decreasing as many have been leaving. It's understandable that the company needs to go where the money is, but many times it is knee jerk reactions and if some planning was put into it they would be much further ahead. I feel that the company continues to over sell and under produce. Leadership doesn't appear to have a good plan. They continue to focus on parts of the business and engineering...

Advice to Management

Get a plan and have realistic timelines. Get focused and follow through. Get/retain people that have conception to market/commercialization experience. Watch for employee morale and burnout. Be careful of what is said and how things are said and be mindful of who is around when those things are said.

Pros

Good pay and benefits, flexible work schedule and location upon approval.

Cons

Lack of clear direction from senior management.

Advice to Management

Needs improvement in multiple ways

Pros

Good benefits. Decent pay. Pros end there!!! Beware! The cons by far outweigh the pro's. Some things are just more important than pay!

Cons

This company is riddled with lies. Thankfully Paul Woods was fired from his position as he never accomplished anything during his 8 years of paying himself over $400k dollars a year and having the company cover his personal expenses. Leadership positions do their best to keep you looking bad in hopes of taking credit for your work. They have never actually produced any ethanol. They just continue to sell lies to wealthy...

Advice to Management

Leave and never associate yourself or your resume with the Algenol name!