Carestream Health Employee Reviews about "great people"

Pros

Great and growing product line and offering. Great and dedicated people.

Cons

The operational plans and metrics seems to have a short horizon or it certainly felt that way

Pros

Not too many left.....good benefit and wage package. Of course the people are fantastic and great to work with.

Cons

I work In Human Resources and we have not had viable functional leadership hear for close to a decade. With Ralph recently retiring, they further undermine the function by bringing in some hot shot for developmental purposes who has no concept on Human Resources and is burning bridges left and right and leaving bodies in her wake. If you work in HR this is not the place to grow your career. Hard to recruit people when you don't believe in it any longer. CEO has no concept of engagement.

Pros

Great people at the staff level- easy commute to work

Cons

HR has too much authority in Company, President is too distant from the rank and file employee- does not even smile or say hello in passing- CFO closes the elevator door in your face to avoid contact with people

Pros

Highly professional environment Great people to work with Excellent salary

Cons

Urban HQ location less than ideal environment

Pros

Salaries are competitive, products are interesting and could perform very well. Most of the people working in the trenches are great to work with.

Cons

The poorly implemented "GE Ranking System" puts 10% of the full time direct hire employees at risk every year. The ranking is done by team/discipline, so even if you have a team where everybody excels, 10% of them will be at risk every year. This "thinning of the herd" does not foster good teamwork and adds unnecessary stress to the work place. It is rumored that the HR manager quit because he so vehemently disagreed with the CEO over this ranking system. Good training is hard to get. You can have all the internet based training you can stand - if you can squeeze in the time needed without impacting your schedule or deliverables (good luck with that!). Upper management also drives unrealistic schedule demands that are only made worse by their inability to make timely decisions on just what the project/product deliverables are supposed to be. They'll take an extra month (or more) to decide upon a path, but that wasted time is NOT reflected on end delivery dates. Missing dates puts you in the 10% "untouchables caste."

Pros

Pay was good Work was interesting Some great people work there

Cons

Corporate America and old Kodak mindset, still making the same mistakes over and over Sacrifice quality for money

Pros

Great people in my group and that I interact with regularly. Products are amazing and innovative with new product introductions on a regular basis. CFO, Corporate Controller and the rest of the HQ Finance team are professional and at the same time very easy going.

Cons

There is always the uncertainty about the future. It's not a secret that the clock is running out for our holding company to sell. It makes it a little scary to make any big purchases just in case I don't have a job! Tone at the top (CEO) could be improved. No affinity groups are supported by the company so are grassroots only.

Pros

Working with some great people throughout The company

Cons

Management too busy penny pinching on employee benifits and blinded By graphs and charts to see how they are alienating The workforce (who actually generate the revenue).

Pros

The company has some great people and an outstanding product portfolio. I find that my team has a very high commitment to providing our customers with the best service experience. I find the compensation and benefits to be very competitive. I am given a great deal of freedom to run my territory

Cons

Upper management is very detached from the troops. In order to do your job you need to navigate a continuous stream of new responsibilities that interfere with our actual job. Way too much pressure to constantly sell to our customers. Little is ever done to make the execution of our job easier. I find that I am forced to constantly chase numbers to the detriment of my customers. Our systems rarely work well and present the biggest obstacle to performing our jobs. Software is rushed to market and often requires many updates to work correctly. The field staff is stretched too thin to cover the assigned geography at the high level our customers have come to expect. This is made worse by the fact that key people are constantly pulled out of the field to perform administrative tasks. Sales support is almost nonexistent.

Pros

For me it is the location and the wonderful cafeteria staff. The building is kept clean. Security is very nice.

Cons

Lets see, where do I start? This company sucks the life right out of you. Unapproachable leadership team. No one wants to make a decision. Terrible culture and the leadership team does not care. HR has lost some great people over the past several months and they simply don't care. This has caused a huge void because I worked very closely with one and I know she truly cared about me and others. Get a HR leader in there that cares about people not one that has absolutely no HR experience and leads by fear.