Milwaukee Tool Reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(1,639 total reviews)
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Steven P. Richman

92% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Milwaukee Tool has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,639 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Milwaukee Tool employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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5.0
28 Jul 2015

Great fast paced company

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Pros

Milwaukee is growing extremely fast mostly through rapid innovation and launching of new products. It is a fast paced dynamic environment which is hard to find in most midwestern manufacturing companies. Feels more like working for a tech company on the west coast than a manufacturing company.

Cons

Fast paced aggressive culture is only a con if you don't like that kind of job; the trade off is that you can move around to get a lot of experience and if you work hard you will get promoted. Not a place to come work if you don't like to be challenged.

1.0
2 Oct 2015

Get serious, we are not fools.

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Pros

The company does knee jerk reactions to try and fix things so they don't mind spending large amounts of money blindly as an after effects to a crisis. Nice co workers.

Cons

Very insultingly low compensation for extremely demanding work. Degrading working situations. You get talked to for taking a short coffee brake while your male counterparts leave for 20 minutes at a time to smoke cigarettes in their cars repeatedly all day long. The no smoking rule is never enforced. The parking lot smells like an ashtray. Not uncommon to have to all day smell burning plastic from the test labs as products are failing because you are rushing them out too quick, you were lucky it wasn't in someone;s house or an apartment building. Had to run out again as the fore department came this week as a lab burnt down. Work hours become longer and employees are more disgruntled by the day. Twitter feeds are filter to remove angry customers. Caps put on tuition, vacation and raises so small they insult you all during record profit years. Completely tone deaf upper management who apparently cares less. Turn over so high you can't remember who is who anymore. Real feeling of disparity and hopelessness in the company as you know the harder you work gets you nowhere unless you are in the club. Cost of living is 6 times the raises so in a few years we'll be broke if we stay. Way too many managers and meetings. No wonder we get such small raises despite being the real workers. Burnout it inevitable, either that or a products battery charger going to burn out a house as products are rushed through and testing so far behind the labs can't keep up but instead they hire and promote more managers. Stop sending out emails asking us to wrote positive reviews about the company on here, that like putting a bandaid on a raging infection.

3.0
30 Jul 2023
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Pros

Casual work environment, strong company culture, exciting growth; in-office perks like affordable cafeteria, onsite gym, and Colectivo coffee shop. Opportunity to "make your mark."

Cons

I echo what some other reviewers left: it's an extroversion-friendly environment, but a real struggle for extremely smart introverts to succeed. Work/life balance is nearly unheard of. HR has relayed that there is now paid parental leave, but it is FAR behind what other area employers are offering -- it's almost insulting. The workforce is YOUNG; there's definitely a huge gap in older and more experience employees. Very top-heavy; I've never seen so many VP's at a company, and many of them have never worked anywhere else and have a career of less than 15 years.

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Milwaukee Tool Response
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Thank you for sharing your views and recommendations. Our Never Settle mentality extends beyond the solutions we provide our users and into improving what we offer our employees, so we appreciate you taking the time.
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