Do yourself a favor - Do not work here. - Engineer EGR Group Employee Review

1.0
Aug 4, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

No real pros with the company.

Cons

The pay is ridiculous. There is no scope for personal improvement - there is no attention given to employee growth. The morale is at an all time low - no one wants to work here (except for upper management). The company is not interested in employee happiness and will not take any action to improve this. Upper management are bullies - they are basically people who have stayed in the company for 10+ years and will not accept any form of change. Employee retention is a joke here. In the last year itself, a large number of engineers have left the company because of low pay and managers who bully them. Expect to be kicked down when you stand up and call out on management's poor behavior. They also use a number of interns from time to time for free labor. They also use fresh graduates, underpay them, and make them believe that the salary they are provided is as per market rate. Don't believe any of the 5 star ratings here - they are most likely fake reviews created by the company to make themselves look like an attractive workplace. Fresh grads - stay away from here. Trust me, I know you want a job - but you may very well kiss your career goodbye if you start here.

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5.0
Aug 2, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Those that speak up are listened too. Focus on continuous improvement. Great improvements in employee engagement and empowerment.

Cons

IT support is based in Head Office (Australia). Seems to take forever to get system issues or improvements addressed.

2.0
May 24, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

On the whole, the working people were OK, easy to get along with and cooperative. The pay was just OK, and one could do a lot worse in the SEMA realm; most SEMA member companies are underfunded amateur-hour hobbies/passions-turned-businesses, and EGR is run as a business, which should be a good thing.

Cons

The US office is not really run as a profit center, more as a distribution/cost center. The goal of minimizing costs drives the culture, and there is a lot of turnover. Even the biggest customers complain that they would get a new coordinator about every six months, and the cycle - new customer rep starts, being sometimes introduced by the current person, sometimes not - get-acquainted - define the problems - begin to solve them - person quits or gets canned, - new person starts - rinse, repeat forever Some might find the almost second-nature Aussie use of profanity used in the workplace a bit uncomfortable. If so, either understand up front that it isn't meant in a bad way or directed as an insult or even at you, but more as just their dialect - or go elsewhere. It just isn't such a big deal.

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