Rentech reviews

4.3

74% would recommend to a friend

(165 total reviews)
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D. Hunt Ramsbottom

1% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Rentech has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 165 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Rentech employee rating is 24% above average for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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165 reviews
1.0
Aug 12, 2014

An utter joke

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Pros

People there are friendly, with some notable exceptions. Pay can be decent to quite good, as there are quite a few overpaid employees there, especially higher up the chain. Location is also convenient.

Cons

Where do I start? Highly dysfunctional group and it all starts at the top. Highly incompetent CEOt. Kind of makes you think that anyone can become a CEO. There is a lot of dead weight at the top. Not impressed with anyone from upper management, and really only a couple out of the top 10 are adequate. Investors always complain about the expenses at the corporate level, and it starts with compensation. They pay these guys a lot of money and a bulk of the work/decisions gets outsourced to professional service firms. Work/life balance is dependent on what department you work for, but for most it is quite bad for a small, irrelevant company. Unfortunately, some here have equated activity with achievement. This explains their history of terrible investments. No room for much personal growth since there aren't many smart ones to learn from.

4.0
Nov 1, 2018

Project Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Great and friendly place to work.

Cons

I'd say location is the only cons I can think of.

1.0
Aug 2, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If you are career focused, goal oriented and success driven then Rentech is probably not the place for you. But if you like to fake the funk then this place has your name all over it. They do have Oracle and one of its higher end Business Intelligence tools but aside from that don't waste your time here.

Cons

Rentech's first business model was to convert coal to liquids (CTL) diesel, gasoline, jet fuel and other petro chemical products. They would do this by building a 53MM process demonstration unit (PDU). Their PDU ended costing more than 150MM and it never worked. Besides, their "new technology" was nothing more than 70 year technology invented by Germany during WWII to fund their war machine, converting coal to fuel. After 8 years all the original executives are gone, the PDU was sold for about 10MM and their true business model was revealed: 1.) Come up with a sexy story. 2.) Spin it to win it. 3.) Give yourself a lot of stock options each year. 4.) Issue smoke and mirror press releases. 5.) Cash in said options. 6.) Wash, rinse, repeat. Research the lawsuits and note the number of outstanding shares each year. And their current executives aren't any better. Now Rentech's business model is selling wood chips at Home Depot. Like you need a NEW publicly traded company headquartered next to Beverly Hills California in one of the most expensive building in Los Angeles to do that. And they have the entire floor. It doesn't take millions of dollars each month in SG&A coming from Los Angeles to figure out that China can sell wood chips cheaper than you, unless you're Rentech. Like I said, the inmates run this asylum.

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