Painful - Anonymous employee Quad/Tech Employee Review

2.0
23 Jul 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

As a company Quadtech provides a lot of benefits to their employees. Affordable food onsite, annual picnics, childcare, onsite healthcare facilities, onsite gym, and basketball courts. The corporate culture founder Harry V. Quadracci started within parent company QuadGraphics are a testament to the man as a leader, and every employee at the company would agree as he is mentioned often to this day in daily conversations at the company.

Cons

Middle management. Threats of layoffs and a reactive work environment that stifles innovation. Job description changes without reason. No hope or consideration for advancement unless you take it upon yourself to get a higher level education, which you will be told to your face by your supervisor. No tuition reimbursement. Expect to see co-workers crying due to stress from leaders that simply have no business in leadership roles or the social skills necessary to empathize with their peers. Theoretical standard operating procedures are implemented by leadership that don't work in the real world are stubbornly maintained by middle management. Employees left unaccountable for their area of expertise while they are micromanaged.

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5.0
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Pros

The food and environment are very good. Enough parking lots.

Cons

The gym is a little small.

3.0
28 Oct 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are many great people to work with, a lot of opportunities for travel, almost everyone has the ability to be 'hands-on' and to have their new ideas heard, outstanding IS support, health care, fitness and daycare available on site.

Cons

The corporate vision changes so much, it is impossible to keep up. If the business process was working, you wouldn't need so many corporate goals to supplement them. If the business process isn't working, fix it, instead of confusing everyone with so many annual corporate goals. The creation of business units created silos and divided the resources, making it impossible to go 'full speed ahead' on any singularly important project. Being a subsidiary of a much bigger parent company, thee people in this division are treated like a printing company, not a technology company. There is no singular vision for the sales, engineering and service groups. Becuase each division answers to its own goals, there is no sense of 'how do we pull together to advance the business?'

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