Making big money for the company will not save your job... - Engineer Pentair Employee Review

3.0
3 Mar 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good coworkers mostly, Good pay, Benefits ok but sliding. New changes were hard but firmed up the the slop which was good -but just with A LOT more blood to do it than was needed.

Cons

Pentair bought out Tyco and it went downhill from there. New Plant manager from Pentair was a NIGHTMARE. Was free to use whatever method to do your job and work on what you wanted -that's gone. Upper management is isolated and misinformed. All real engineering has been outsourced to India so don't expect to make an R&D impact -even if you're in new product develpoment. No true loyalty to employees even if you made and saved millions of dollars for the company. ...and then the layoffs...

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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We are disappointed to hear your experience as it does not reflect the Win Right values that are the foundation for Pentair and shape how we do business and treat one another. We encourage you to share more about your experience by submitting a report at PentairEthics.com. We appreciate your contributions to Pentair and appreciate you bringing this to our attention.
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