Koch Industries Reviews

Pros

Guiding Principles that are not just an idea or a thought, but practiced daily. A culture that not only embraces change, but expects process/procedure challenge. A culture that allows the individual to evaluate their role and find true sustainable value through challenge and innovation.

Cons

No onsite gym or workout facility.

Pros

Company culture, co-workers, cafeteria, entrepreneurship

Cons

Restructure frequently, don’t promote those that are deserving - bring in college interns over those who are working equally as hard but don’t get treated the same because they didn’t go through internship

Pros

Lot's of diverse experience early on in your career.

Cons

1) Wichita. 2) Living in Wichita. 3) Traveling to Wichita.

Advice to Management

Leave Wichita

Pros

Seems like a good family company.

Cons

Changed office layout to”open”. Too much micro-management.

Pros

Flexible Hours and Challenging Work

Cons

Broken lines of communication overall

Pros

If a good culture fit, then person has open ended opportunities for advancement in their career field.

Cons

Difficult to obtain a pay increase and/or inflation pay increase. Very long hours if in IT departments.

Advice to Management

Loosen requirements and hire additional personnel within a predetermined time period to reduce stress on remaining personnel meeting workload requirements.

Pros

Compensation is decent at the manager level at some subsidiaries Use of robotic technology makes some processes more efficient, innovative Principled

Cons

In the Corporate office, a handful of minorities hold position of manager+ (out of almost 3000) Employees strongly encouraged to adopt Koch's political beliefs (conservative, libertarian) Many employees do not abide by guiding principles Difficult - if not impossible- to advance if you are a minority Promotions are far and few between if you don't know the right people Frameworks often lead to red-tape and become bottlenecks...

Advice to Management

Start "walking the talk" on diversity and inclusion or you will continue to lose well-qualified, diverse employees. Hire more, promote more to leadership positions! Giving money to UNCF and TMCF means nothing if you are not hiring these young scholars. Uncover and put a stop to unconscious biases- train your employees to recognize and combat. You will not have diverse perspectives if you do not hire diverse employees;...

Pros

Georgia- Pacific was a good company to work for until Koch Brothers bought them out.

Cons

Horrible upper management in the GP Harmon division. Every day was nothing but phone conferences. And the constant berating of different personnel on every call, which mind you was normally a call to discuss MBM, was just plain asinine on upper managements part.

Advice to Management

Try practicing what you you preach. Pushing the MBM values down to other employees is fine but if you are going to constantly put people down and curse on the calls then you are not abiding by the Koch Brothers philosophy. Here is the only clue you need: Treat people the way you want to be treated ! This company has lost a great number of good employees the past few years because of bad upper management.