Carestream Health Reviews

Pros

They had a fantastic benefits package and I could never complain about the income I was paid. The executive leadership team is very smart and know what they are doing. The upper level managers and directors are great. They care for their employees work/life balance and I valued my direct leader immensely.

Advice to Management

DO NOT SELL THE MOST PROFITABLE PART OF YOUR BUSINESS!!!
While it really is a fantastic company, once the Dental business was split off from the Medical business.... it turned into the Titanic. I keep hearing about the rounds of layoffs that are occurring globally... tragic.

However, as I said.... the management team is great and in the 16 years I worked for the company in all its various forms, I was ALWAYS proud to be employed by them.

Pros

Nice nice nice nice nice employees

Advice to Management

More proactive for CI

Pros

1. Competitive pay and benefits
2. International travel
3. Tight-knit audit team
4. Audit Management is very supportive
5. Endless professional growth opportunities

Advice to Management

1. Focus on growing the top line,

2. The CEO had it right when he spoke candidly with employees about his plans for the company. Revisit that communication strategy and stick with it.

Pros

Fun place to work and they do well as a company

Pros

It is probably not too late to turn the company around

Advice to Management

Replace the old Kodak management ASAP with professionals from the outside. This means everyone on the director level and above.

Did you ever consider that selling HCIS will make it very difficult to sell x-ray products to our customers? We won’t have a SW package to bundle it with... Duh!!

Pros

Progressive, Professional Leading Manufacturer, Quality of Employees

Pros

1) Pay is good comparable to other local companies. Benefits were good, but are being progressively stripped.

2) There is a small collective of high-performers that continue to do all that is necessary to drive the business and do the right thing.

3) (As a salaried employee) So as long as you are willing to regularly in excess of a 60 hour work week, you have the flexibility to construct/manage your work day.

Advice to Management

1) Focus on, and fully support, transformative growth and innovation efforts in the businesses that are not being stripped and salvaged. Demonstrate some bravery and trust in passionate and dedicated employees who want to make a difference in alignment with corporate objectives.

2) Don't replicate the Kodak model of riding out the film cash cow until there's nothing left and you're left with entering odd markets that have nothing to do with the brand or value proposition.

3) Overhaul R&D, Manufacturing, Service and IT Leadership with fresh-thinking, passionate individuals that are determined to transform the business, and willing to lead in an agile, flexible, expedient manner. Be sure to place LEADERS in leadership positions, not EGOs.

4) As the current skewed demographics are painfully obvious, try developing high-performing female, minority and early-career individuals that demonstrate potential. Let their merits speak for themselves, don't take advantage of them, and don't make them fight for 'a seat at the table'.

5) Make ALL employees, regardless of position, spend some regular, dedicated time within the Regions the business supports. GMs may spend a copious amount of time traveling to have face-time with Regional peers and their various markets, but unless a direct understanding and respect for Regional needs/differences is understood by each individual relative to their responsibilities, little will change.

6) Find a way to exit people who simply don't want to be with the company. Difficult to execute, understandably, but necessary.

Pros

Good people that do the work

Advice to Management

Trust the workers

Pros

Was great at first, feels like a sinking ship now

Pros

Intelligent, collaborative people to work with
Even after changes, benefits are better then most peer companies

Advice to Management

Infuse new talent