Savant Reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(81 total reviews)
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Robert Madonna

50% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Savant has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 81 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Savant 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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81 reviews
1.0
30 Mar 2020

Underhanded tactics during hard times

Anonymous employee
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Pros

They will tell you “at least you have a job”.

Cons

During this pandemic the company has decided to cut everyone’s salary across the board by 20%. The company will tell you it’s their way of making sure that no one gets laid off. What they won’t tell you is that they are really taking this opportunity to get the same amount of work from their workforce at a 20% savings. They are also laying the foundation for a lay-off by minimizing their unemployment liability by reducing the salaries by 20%. This way, if the economy does not rebound, they can lay people off at a 20% unemployment insurance benefit savings. If the economy rebounds, they will make everyone fight for their 20% salaries again.

1.0
26 Mar 2018
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Pros

Great industry/technology. Cape Cod is nice in the summer. It's a job.

Cons

Poor management. Poor communication. Poor pay. No 401k match. No formal review or pay raise process. Extended work hours expected with little recognition of effort. promotion from within almost non-existent. Clicky. If you are not from the Excel Switching 'old boy network', you are nothing and will always be nothing. Non-cooperative, work environment. You will be thrown under the bus for any and all 'mistakes'. Remote location. Very few tech job opportunities in the Cape area. If it doesn't work out here, you will be relocating for work. Trust me and don't work here, you'll thank me. Poor product decisions. Engineering driven product decisions have yielded many failed and sub par products. If the owner didn't have extremely deep pocket to through money at this venture, it would have shut down years ago.

1.0
31 May 2023
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Pros

Get paid a decent salary with almost no accountability to show results for your work as long as you are busy and doing what you are told. A lot of good people trying their best to block and tackle the constant strategy changes. Everything goes through the owner so at least you know who is calling the shots. Some good ideas exist that could win if the right people were empowered to go after it and really meet the market need.

Cons

Not customer centric. Trying to force fit half baked solutions into the market without any real intelligence of what the market wants. No incentives for employees who are delivering results. Bonuses and raises have been halted, company cannot pay its debts to suppliers who are abandoning them. Feckless “leadership” blindly following the whims of the next six month plan from the owner aimed to wow investors and cash in. Family and friends who are wholly unqualified in experience and pedigree for the jobs and titles they have. “Executives” that don’t understand how to read a basic P&L or cash flow statement. VPs who are not and never have been empowered or accountable to set a strategy or make decisions. Owner has track record of buying businesses and running them into the ground.

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