Good company, somewhat suspect hiring process. - Mixer Sika Employee Review

4.0
7 Mar 2020
Recommend
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Pros

It's solid if unremarkable factory work. If you’re looking for a clean job, this is not for you, but if you’re OK with getting dirty, it’s fine. Pay is pretty good. Management is fair and pretty hands off as long as everything is running as expected. Benefits package looks great.

Cons

The only real con to the job is the hiring process I went through. System One, the agency that handles the hiring at the Lakewood, NJ plant, promises new temps a full time hire or a return to the agency after 600 hours/15 weeks. Instead, as confirmed by several members of management, it can take up to two years for the company to actually hire you on as an employee while in the meantime, you're accumulating no PTO/vacation, no holiday pay, awful benefits through the agency, etc.

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5.0
14 Jan 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great team, Great pay and benefits

Cons

Programs and plans need help.

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Sika Response
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Thank you for your review of Sika, we are glad that you enjoyed our environment and team spirit and we wish you all the best in your future career.
1.0
20 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

New, relatively clean facility. Nice location. Facility is small and simple. Easy to learn the equipment.

Cons

Poor communication. No direction from day to day. You will be judged very quickly by colleagues and management will always side with them even when they are in the wrong. Maintenance boss has NO technical knowledge and that becomes evident and problematic very quickly because he can not recognize your strengths and will challenge your judgement, make you do things his way even though he doesnt know what hes doing. Your contributions will not be recognized or rewarded instead management will get hung up on little things that are of no real consequence. They are cheap and dont like to spend money on spare parts or tools. There are almost zero spare parts so whwn equipment breaks you could be waiting for days for the parts to arrive and in the meantime you get blamed for equipment failure when you had nothing to do with the failure, This is where the boss having no skillset comes into play in a negative way, lack of recognition of systematic troubleshooting steps. The money is below average but the facility is small and quite simplistic. The facility is run mostly by foreigners who display prejudice toward US born citizens. Sounds crazy but it is true.

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