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Lost Touch With Long Term Employees - IT Manager International Paper Employee Review

1.0
Jun 13, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary and the people that work with you are friendly.

Cons

Cater to college recruits (CORE). CORE is spoon fed special assignment and given positions without any experience. December we let IT staff go and then turn around and create Strategic Analyst position for someone with no qualifications and they do not post it. If you are not on the managed move list to get promoted and no one can tell you how to get on the list. Senior leaders routinely are deceptive about their motivation especially in Information Technology. Ethics is something they preach but do not practice. I have had directors and senior managers information technology lie to my face and when you show them your CSA is impacted. If you are long term employee your contribution does not count. Want a prime example, CORE have a budget, they often spend time with VP, Directors, Sr. Managers, etc. They are spoon fed positions. They get training on leadership that long term employees do not get. CORE have little experience and even if you are not accepted into because you do not meet requirements by CORE, a VP or Director can have you put into CORE. Just go look at some of the CORE GPAs.

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5.0
Dec 11, 2025
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Pros

Great co-workers/environment Easy work for outstanding pay Great schedule that is set for a year and allows 1 full week off every 4 weeks.

Cons

Can be extremely dirty. A bad day with plugs can be very physically demanding.

1.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits were fairly decent when I was there. PTO was pretty generous. Pay was decent enough, along with a Bonus at certain pay levels. Many of the people I worked with there were outstanding - although, most of them are gone now. They did retain a few subject matter experts, most have left or leaving - but I guess it's a possible pro they might not cut your entire department..

Cons

The Cons are the new 'wonder boy' CEO. This puts most of the 'Pros' here on shaky ground. The new CEO - Andy Silvernail, is a ruthless cost cutter. I would expect as/if the stock continues to drop - other benefits, people, or pay will be gouged - like they did the entire IT department. Andy was making big stock promises when he started up, but it was clear from the start, his only concern was the stock price. I still talk to some people they did retain or forced over ("rebadged" - such a terribly soulless word for it) to the new MSP. Every single one of them is at their wit's end. They are hemorrhaging what's left of IT in the company and all of the deep knowledge with them. It WAS a great place to work - now they report working 60+ hours a week trying to make up for the incompetence of the new MSP. At least one of them told me that he has dealt with more downtime and high priority problems in the last couple months, than the previous 15 years there. So if you are considering a job in IT at this company - in any capacity, expect to work long hours with no real path or possibility for advancement.

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