Whirlpool Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Whirlpool full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Whirlpool offers employee discounts on products which is a good benefit. The South West Michigan area is a great place to live. Lake Michigan beaches are awesome. The people are great.

Cons – The performance review process creates a culture were people undermine each other and don't work as a team. Whirlpool fires people as soon as they reach the age of 55. This is age discrimination of course but there is no recourse.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop firing older people. You are loosing knowledge and talent which will reduce product quality. Eliminate the current review process.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Whirlpool

Pros – hours are easy, tuition reimbursement, benefits, bonuses, pay.

Cons – some people can be difficult to work with, but that is not the company's fault. somewhat high turnover with contractors

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it going in the right direction, stay new with technology.

Current Employee – been working at Whirlpool full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Looks good on a resume. Forces you to deal with multiple processes, some of which are completely useless, and contradictory to success

Cons – No work life balance, expected to work 12 hours a day

Advice to Senior Management – Come down and see how the real world is working

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Whirlpool full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Flexible schedule and good pay.

Cons – Their PMP review system is a joke. With this system, management has to give an employee a "needs improvement" or "exceeds improvement' rating every year regardless of their performance.
Promotion is based on who you know and not what you know or how you perform.
The appliance industry is very competitive now and the only reason Whirlpool has been profitable the last few years is cut backs to cost and not volume.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the PMP system. If you can't rely on your managers to give an accurate assessment of each employee, they shouldn't be in management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Whirlpool full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The company pays a lot of attention to employee engagement, which is fantastic. There are plenty of opportunities to move into new roles and each employee is driven to be an active part of their career development.

Cons – The company is highly "matrixed" - along functional, regional, and product category boundaries - that creates unnecessarily long timing for decisions to be made. They use a "forced ranking" system of performance management - fitting a pool of similar roles into a forced distribution of performance. That drives behavior that places the individual before the company - I have never heard so many comments regarding "PMP" at a company in my life.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue the focus on employee engagement and get rid of the forced ranking.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Whirlpool full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good working opportunities, caree grow, travel

Cons – Very slow decision process, too orthodox

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Whirlpool full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great place to work for someone looking to move up the career ladder. This company likes to develop its talent. I really liked the products Whirlpool offered and learning about the different brands. Overall I really loved working for this company and left because of my spouse's job.

Cons – At the time I worked there they needed to improve their customer relationship management software. This may not be a con to all people, but it was to me; If you want to move up in this company than you will ultimately end up in Benton Harbor, MI.

Advice to Senior Management – I think that processes needed to be improved to offer more consistancy throughout the organization.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Whirlpool as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Good work environment. Get to try new things often. Most of the people are fun to be around. Management takes their job seriously but knows how to lighten up.

Cons – Constant lay offs to temps. Cant afford anything with $10/ hour and no benefits as a temp. Takes two years for direct hire.

Current Employee – been working at Whirlpool full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Market Leader, Great place to learn and grow

Cons – Location is not the best

Advice to Senior Management – Faster to market.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Whirlpool full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – great great company to grow your career by creating opportunity for you to challenge yourself and gain different experience. Love the company culture and company strives to engage employees.

Cons – between brand, category, finance, procurement, engineering..... they all have global structure and regional team, think about the complexity when it comes to decision making. won't say it's the most efficient company in the world. plus, they shuffle people around quickly and they won't even get chance to execute their strategy yet.

Advice to Senior Management – who really owns P/L? too many people have say in it

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company