Get out before you turn 40! - Anonymous employee Quad/Tech Employee Review

1.0
Nov 18, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits package is okay, but no longer special. If you're new to the company, you will be given the reins when you walk in the door. But after the first year, you become the problem. Sussex (headquarters) is a nice town.

Cons

Layoffs are very frequent. Every holiday season you get to wonder if you'll have a job next week. The industry is in a decade-long recession, and QuadTech compounds the problem with unbelievably bad leadership. The creative and innovative people who once made it great have either been moved out or put on a shelf. Age discrimination starts in your 40s. Management flails away at new strategies every year, with no results. They bounce between barely profitable and losing money year after year. The profitable years are because they slash staff and don't give out raises. In late 2014, it became the most political and scheming place to work I've ever witnessed. New managers are brought in, work their evil, then move to another company in a year or three, leaving everyone else to hold the bag. Over and over and over.

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Pros

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

Cons

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3.0
Oct 28, 2011
Recommend
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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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