Pentair Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Pentair full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Relatively stable company in most areas. Good benefits. Acquisitions can provide some opportunity.

Cons – Cost cutting may result in more facility closures like the one I worked for and there is limited movement among divisions so upward movement was uncommon while I was there.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Pentair full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Was a good place to work when work was available. Pentair lost many jobs due to poor quality/personel turnover

Cons – Very poor management, no clear vision of where they need to go or what markets to attack...

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to find talented people to get the company back in line. QC needs to improve dramatically

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Pentair

Pros – Salary and benefits were good

Cons – Management was afraid to act. They are giving business to the competition

Advice to Senior Management – You are loosing good people

Current Employee – been working at Pentair full-time

Pros – Great global reach so many opportunities to travel internationally and learn the business in different countries. The people overall are very experienced and excel at their jobs.

Cons – It is obvious management at the upper level of finance plays favorites - decisions about hiring/firing/retention seem more based on getting on upper finance's "good side" rather than true employee performance. As a result, there is a lack of trust in upper management's retention and personnel development decisions, especially if you have a direct or dotted-line reporting to the CFO. This has become increasingly obvious now that preparations for the merger are advancing.

Advice to Senior Management – Do a better job retaining talent, especially during the merger process. Make sure retention and development of talent is fair, not based on a single individual's opinions/views.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Pentair

Pros – Good brand (at least in the past)
Great for people in the 20's

Cons – New leadership is damaging the customer loyalty
Very poor integration with acquired brands
What the leader says is different what comes out as a decision
Performance review is based on if you are buddy with your boss
Pentair is losing the edge and brand of the acquired companies

Advice to Senior Management – Care about your employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Pentair

Pros – Interesting products, and brands are well known. The locations are spread out across the region and offer lateral movement within the organization.

Cons – Unrealistic expectations of product development to production. Need for FMEA process to avoid rush to production, which only creates waste.

Advice to Senior Management – You need to stop letting customers run your business. Of course the customer is king, but transparency should not mean the customer taking over.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Pentair

Pros – Good experience for an intern. Was allowed to experience product engineering department and get a feel for if I liked it.

Cons – Could have been more engineering related. Boss was kind of full of himself but that could be an isolated incident

Advice to Senior Management – Make dialogue more open between lower levels and upper levels. Communicate decisions more with engineers. Give engineers more input in decision making.

Current Employee – been working at Pentair

Pros – Global company, good brands, good people

Cons – Little to no training available, little budget money for any extras like travel, office supplies, advertising, etc.

Advice to Senior Management – CEO Randy Hogan needs to look closer at the management of each facility to make sure they are actually following his philosophies. He believes in marketing, branding, advertising but each facility is not focused on those areas. Finance runs the show and does not promote the brands.

Former Employee – worked at Pentair

Pros – None, I do not believe there are any Pros.

Cons – Beware of this company. They will tell you that you are great to your face and behind your back they will backstab you and sell you out to save their own job. How can you treat your employees that way. It is no wonder no one trusts in this company. The GM will do and say anything to save his own behind. Eventually, things will catch up and people will realize what a joke this division is. I would not recommend this company to anyone. If you want to die or a heart attack and have no family time this is the company for you. I can't see this division staying around to long unless there are BIG changes.

Advice to Senior Management – Fire yourselves and start over.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Pentair

Pros – Smart people
Good products
Ability to drive change and make improvements
Interesting project work
Performance driven culture
Good pay and benefits

Cons – Minimal recognition given
Company seemed to be going through an identity crisis: Are we a (decentralized) holding company or a (centralized) operating company?
Lots of process inefficiencies and waste
Leadership could be short-sighted at times.

Advice to Senior Management – Think bigger picture. Invest in long-term solutions that yield strong ROI over time, rather than favoring short-term band-aid fixes that have a more immediate impact on bottom line, but aren't fixing the root cause.