Gorton's Reviews

3.6

55% would recommend to a friend

(44 total reviews)

Kurt Hogan

73% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Gorton's has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 44 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Gorton's employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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44 reviews
2.0
29 Dec 2016

Kind of a Mess

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The hours are good. The pay and benefits are decent, or at least competitive. You don't have to work too hard to stay employed.

Cons

Lack of vision and strategy - there really is not one, and if they ever set one, they change it only months later. Lack of business and marketing know-how or rigor ... leading to excuses about why performance is poor, weak "strategies", and business declines. Employees do not try to improve themselves or the business, the company seems stuck in a rut, people just show up to collect a paycheck. Over time, they have been beaten down by management that new ideas and sticking your neck out are not appreciated and can even backfire. So people end up doing the bare minimum and playing politics instead. Top management is not transparent and does not seem to hold themselves accountable for poor business performance. They also do not communicate well with each other, and often times bad-talk each other at an unprofessional level. Zero training. The only thing you learn on the job is how Gorton's has been doing things forever - if anyone even attempts to try to teach you something - which is usually not the right way or up to par with the rest of the industry. And then management does not give employees job assignments to stretch themselves and learn something new; rather, they put them in their little box of what they came in knowing and are good at doing, and that's it. Lack of upward mobility. They do not like promoting people.

3.0
2 July 2021

Does Not Care About Employees

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Specific teams within Gorton's are great, but overall management is not.

Cons

Management does not make the best decisions for the company because they do not listen to employees who are actually doing the work. They are also unwilling to compromise to let some people work from home to help balance their work-life schedule. They are willing to lose people than to work with them.

1.0
25 Nov 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Hours. To echo a previous you do not have to work hard to keep your job.

Cons

Legacy work culture, not innovative, very slow paced. They struggle retaining talent because they mostly recruit folks out of “select” colleges. When they do recruit folks with experience, they have a hard time retaining them because they do not welcome change or diverse backgrounds experiences. Everyone that “Loves it there” have 35 years seniority and are sticking around for pensions and retirement. The younger folks are building their resumes. This is not the place if you are expecting a diverse or inclusive culture. Very “good old boy” network. There are no POC in the corporate office, so all of their diversity is within the factory population. HR began conducting engagement surveys and the results are poor two years in a row and they omit details from employees. Compensation is way below market in most cases, but I guess if most of your population started right out of college making $12 per hour and are now at $60k...35 years later they should be grateful 😏.

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