Woodward Reviews

Pros

Room for growth and also a great place to learn and grow your skillset. Lots of varying jobs with knowledgeable employees. Not great, but above average benefits.

Cons

The training program needs work so your coworkers are who you will lean on heavily. Management and support are spotty so you will need to document anything that goes wrong so you're not thrown under the bus.

Pros

Technologies that will interest job seekers in Aerospace and Defiance. Friendly people.

Cons

No training....learn as you go.

Pros

Large enough to have opportunities to grow

Cons

They continually try and outsource their application work with disastrous results.

Pros

Pay was decent and had opportunity for advancing.

Cons

Working with chemicals that were not always safe

Pros

Good work environment everyone was friendly

Cons

Not complex enough, tasks were too easy

Pros

Work environment was positive and enjoyable Benefits

Cons

Seasonal position so not enough hours for the summer

Pros

-nice environment to learn in -friendly people

Cons

star method for all interviews

Pros

Benefits, pay, lots of opportunities for overtime

Cons

Management always seems to be changing

Pros

Nice people, Colorado is beautiful.

Cons

Pay, vacation, work, and leadership. Pay: The pay for an engineer is low and doesn’t get better with time as all the veteran employees complained about pay. Bonus target is a marketing tactic only. Vacation: They let you “buy back vacation days” read “unpaid time off”. Vacation days do not rollover. They are cutting benefits quickly, people that started 6 months before me had better vacation benefits. Work: The projects were a mix between data entry and copy-paste from the last project. There was not a lot of work to do. No progression or succession plans and 90% of the workforce is 0-7 years from retirement. Leadership: "Woodward announces $800 million stock buyback and won't be able pay your bonuses this year". Sorry, but there are only 7,200 employees and that stock buyback represents over $100,000 per employee - you really can't afford to pay a bonus to the working class employees? Woodward is stuck in the 1980's corporate raider mentality of "cut employee benefits and pay to increase share price which ultimately enriches the CEO, board of directors, and shareholders." Is this the best Woodward's management could come up with on how to invest extra capital?

Pros

Plenty of room for growth and development of skills. Good environment for career building while maintaining work-life balance.

Cons

Pay way less than the average job across the board. Engineers, machinist, supervisors etc. are all underpaid and raises are low. Cannot keep good people when we lowball as the area is competitive.