Pitney Bowes Reviews

Pros – Excellent, Fair Culture, Sharp Employees Strong Technology Excellent Training

Cons – A bit of Micro-Management, Compensation not Breath Taking But Decent

Advice to Senior Management – Lighten up, The world is full of Sharp People

Pros – Autonomy and speak up. Your views count.

Cons – Revenues/EBIT in challenge, low marketing focus and poor global product deployment.

Advice to Senior Management – New Mgmt making lots of changes which is good. Need to filter down and across globe quickly.

Pros – Company is starting to communicate much more. I like the transparency. Nice people to work with, generally helpful to get you going. Very solid products and solutions.

Cons – Very solid products and solutions but largely under-marketed. Due to revenue decline, job security and opportunities are limited. Slow in rolling out new products across the world.

Advice to Senior Management – Retain good talent before they jump ship. Like the new vision and culture.

Pros – Simple job. Copying and taking care of the background work of law offices. Great people to work for and with.

Cons – Sometimes the people who request work, don't know what they want or how to tell you. Gotta be able to work with that.

Pros – A lot to explore in terms of work, can go beyond the job and figure out various areas of interest ( not talkig of software engineers, i was in HR)

Cons – It can be a little dull to start off with. Location maybe an issue for some

Pros – They pay relatively high salaries. Most jobs have very flexible self-regulated schedules. A lot of jobs (growing all the time) are work from home.

Cons – The products and services are market leaders in a dying industry. The only way the ever even come close to analysts numbers is by continuously laying off personnel. The work place is toxic, there used to be (for the past 8 years or so) an annual lay-off right between Thanksgiving and Christmas (nice timing huh, very thoughtful), but now the lay-offs are what seems to be every week from a different group or department so no one ever knows when they go into work on a given day if it will it be their last. The amount of work for each individual is enormous because the survivors have to pick up the load. They constantly bring in people from the outside as management, they don't promote from within very often, and the new management seem to be getting worse and worse. They finally got rid of Murray Martin who basically drove the company into the ground with no repercussions whatsoever.

Advice to Senior Management – C-Level personnel should look to clean house of VP and above who have been at PB for more than say 20 years instead of laying off all the workers that have all the domain knowledge. Get rid of the layers and layers of management. As a manager I have 11 people under me. Yet there are many groups in WHQ who have a manager (with no direct reports) reporting to a Director, who reports to a Senior Director who reports to a VP and that is the VP's entire organization, himself and three or four other higher management positions. But you keep laying off the workers. Really? And stop outsourcing all our jobs because you are losing the local domain knowledge and letting things like control of your data, of all things, be controlled by someone else.

Pros – Brilliant people and mutually supportive and collaborative.

Cons – It is often a living example of the Peter Principle.

Advice to Senior Management – Quit the 'low hanging fruit' fixes and focus on the big problems.

Pros – Flexibility, remote work access, forward thinking in technology selection, great team and smart people

Cons – Senior management's inability to make decisions & motivate organization to move forward through difficult environment

Advice to Senior Management – Replace senior management team, eliminate unprofitable business, retain good people, not laying off by positions but retain talents

Pros – Pay was good, benefits not bad

Cons – As the company has lost it's way management is non existent, it's every man for himself environment. Opportunity has become stagnant

Advice to Senior Management – Stop being so selfish!

Pros – Time-off and Vacation. Great opportunity to gain Customer Service skills. Its a good place to start but not to make a career out of.

Cons – Promotions are scarce. No recognition for low-level employees.