large nationwide corporation but ran more like an independent operation with great support from corporate - Field Service Manager Ply Gem Employee Review

5.0
Oct 28, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Many opportunities to better your position and the department with support from local and national teams. Never micro managed but always have support and guidance when needed. Many times this was slow going, as busy as everyone was, but you never felt ignored nor alone. Medical benefits were reduced a bit in 2020 but still above industry standards. Matching 401K up to a certain percentage and good paid time off. Great staff to work along side, especially the customer service supervisor and factory manager. opportunity to assist many customers and homeowners out in the field, directly or through our great local and regional Field Service Techs. Good product sold and supported by this manufacture with a great extended warranty that keeps everyone working into welcomed overtime. Working at offices at the actual plant gives valuable product insight, as well as ability to work with production and engineers to solve challenges. Local and national opportunities to advance and/or relocate.

Cons

Like most robust warranty support, there are cases when customers or other in the chain can never be pleased, no matter how much you give. Also, there are many (very many) cases where it's a variable outside the actual manufactured product that is causing a failure that appears to be the product. Attempting to prove and convince is very difficult to impossible at time. Lastly, since there is so much work available, it can be easy to take on those extra hours and even weekend work. Home life eventually suffers so you must find the balance and work with your team to make sure this balance is found.

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5.0
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Pros

Easy you don’t do anything you need a brain for

Cons

Just stand all day one spot and never move for 10 whole hours

2.0
Apr 9, 2025
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Pros

The pay is pretty great. Your fellow employees are super diverse and it allows you to learn a lot about people of all cultures and walks of life.

Cons

You will be overworked and under valued. Depending on their relationship, leads and supervisors will absolutely talk about the employees in inappropriate ways. You will be treated with respect to your face unless you advocate for yourself. Ninety-nine percent of the time, there are cliques within leadership and generally they have very unfortunate views on people who were not born in the US regardless of their work ethic. If you excell at your job, you will be recognized and praised some days and scolded other days for not taking on the work of three different people. Some individuals don't actually care about the job and are just there for a paycheck. Safety is regarded as important in theory but not in reality. Quality is deemed as important, but in reality no one cares. Work-life balance is actually non-existent, no matter how much they claim otherwise.

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