Middleby Reviews

3.2

43% would recommend to a friend

(75 total reviews)
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Timothy FitzGerald

59% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Middleby has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 75 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Middleby 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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75 reviews
1.0
19 Feb 2018

Needs Improvement

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Pros

- a lot of pizza there during testing. - You can almost do nothing there and be ok.

Cons

- Accounting micromanages everything to the point that people stopped doing their jobs knowing the accountant will do it because they do. - Engineering should have the power to tell people yes or no but they don't which leads to doing unnecessary work and testing. - No one is held accountable or ideas to improve enforced so everything always fails, but the company seems to be ok with it. - There are a few key individuals that are keeping that place alive but are 5-10yrs from retirement. When that tribal knowledge leaves the company is going to be in big trouble. - The company in a nut shell would spend $100 to save $1.

1.0
23 Nov 2023

Horrible management, zero consistent policies

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Pros

It was a job that I tried to accomplish despite being hindered at every step by talentless managers with no soft skills or technical knowledge to speak of.

Cons

Middleby upper management is laughably incompetent. They will delegate tasks to other departments while denying them access to critical information needed to complete them. They will make changes on the fly without any defensible logic or reason and then defend their decisions with "because I'm the leader!" while providing zero evidence that anything they're doing is remotely effective. Then, when bad news comes, they blame everyone else for failing them, like when they put up a big countdown clock announcing when we'd be terminated for failing to "turn things around" for them. I reported numerous HR issues to management but was told I was in the wrong for not being thick-skinned enough. With that attitude, you can see how sabotage would run rampant at a division losing money hand over fist. Great leadership!!

1.0
23 May 2024

Profits over people

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Pros

Severance package was decent even though they laid us all off

Cons

Company comes in, buys up companies, then consolidates. The consolidation is terrible and thats putting it lightly. Doesn't think about end customer, only care is profit.

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