Bad experience, but not a terrible place to work - Anonymous employee Sika Employee Review

2.0
6 Oct 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

People were nice, flexible scheduling

Cons

People were very set in their ways and were not always willing to help or explain things to someone new. There was zero tolerance for mistakes. No one is perfect, so this isn't acceptable. I was put into a position under a new manager who didn't know what he was doing (he had also just started). We were trying to switch over to a program that was already in use in Europe to produce MSDSs, but it was an impossible task. I would make a MSDS following the procedure I was given from Europe then sales and R&D would freak out about it having stuff in there that reacted out, repeat, repeat, repeat. I tried my very best to work with the program and with everyone involved, but it was a terribly frustrating ordeal. My manager even told me I had a bad attitude when I would explain my frustrations. At the peak of this, I was offered a job from a previous employer and ran as fast as I could.

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Sika Response
9y
Thank you for taking the time to review your experience at Sika. We are very sorry to hear that you did not have a good experience. As a technologically advanced company we regularly update our internal systems to ensure that our processes run in the most efficient way possible. Obviously we understand that additional staff training and support is required at these times and we are very sorry that you didn't receive it. Please be assured that we will look into this and use your feedback to improve our future roll outs.

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-There is little to no internal promotion opportunities anymore. When roles have opened up, they have gone to external candidates, or they bring someone in from the location in Europe. -Patchy communications from corporate, as well as corporate boasting the record-breaking profits on the internet, and then our bonuses would get cut - left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. -Salaries are pretty frugal -Senior management seem to be in a micromanagement mindset and caring about the wrong things -HR and management have made some bad choices when it comes to employees lately that I don't agree with

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Sika Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review for Sika. We are very sorry to hear about your concerns and we would strongly encourage you to speak to your local HR team or line manager about these issues.
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