Southco Reviews

4.1

77% would recommend to a friend

(182 total reviews)
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Thomas Mehler

90% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Southco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 182 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Southco 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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182 reviews
5.0
31 July 2023

Great Compaany

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great, fantastic, amazing, professional, great conditions

Cons

Nothing bad to say about this business at all

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Southco Response
2y
Thank you for sharing your feedback about our company, as well as your experience working in our Melbourne office. One of the benefits our employees enjoy is being part of a global team. As a global community, we work together and collaborate with colleagues located in over 22 countries. This creates a diverse and enriching experience, where we learn from each other. Congratulations on achieving 6 years of service with Southco, and here's wishing you many more years of success!
2.0
10 Sept 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It used to be a great place to work and there are still some really great people there. I'm afraid I hear more people saying how they need to start looking. Then there will be nothing left.

Cons

Where do I start? Being nickeled and dimed on spending in our department then hearing leadership is having regional sales meetings. (And from what I hear the sales meetings always have more booze and bed sharing then strategy and information sharing.). Or hearing that all the officers and bored members are going to Asia with their spouses on the company dime? We focus on this rediculous metric - passed due to request when customers are able to request tomorrow when we have a lead time of 6 weeks. Why??? We've been on mandatory overtime for months. Maybe even a year now. I've lost track. And the offices get summer hours. And the leaders are one day nice and positive the next day scary and demeaning. I've seen more than one co-worker reduced to tears. I have a unique view in having multiple roles here. And I can tell you it's got so much potential but no one seems to care enough to return it to greatness.

1.0
8 Aug 2017

Anonymous

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS SOME PROS- BUT AFTER WORKING THERE SO HARD I WAS LET GO FOR NO REASON-PEOPLE BE AWARE OF THIS COMPANY IT'S AN UPPER SCALE SWEAT SHOP-THEY WILL GET RID OF YOU IN A SECOND NO MATTER HOW MANY YEARS YOU WORKED THERE.

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I have been working here for over a year and half full time, This place is an upper scale sweat shop, i met a lot of good people, but only one think comes to there mind (it's a job) they all hate it there , the morale is atrocious. The management team which i know quite well is the worst i have ever encountered, they bully you to the end, i worked so very hard at this place and at the end they let me go for what reason i have no idea. i am still stunned that the fact that i did so much for this company and and in in the end i got send home? )ANYONE WHO IS LISTENING DO NOT WORK THERE IT'S A SWEATSHOP) I Haven't met one happy person in that facility, people only work there because the fact they need money just like the rest of us.Now to HR they are the worst backstabbing people i have ever met, beware people they will get you or someone else will report you meaning (SNITCH) on you. Most people there will backstab you so they can get ahead , i am not just saying that i worked my butt off and in return i was let go. The way i experienced it was you have to be totally oblivious to everything, if you work hard you are a fool just like i was, they don't care who works hard or who doesn't as long as the work is being done. They have a favoritism towards the Colored people because for some reason they think there going to get sued, believe me people when i say they can do what ever they want, if i did anything i was always made sure i was talked to like i was worthless. I am still in total shock that they let me go after putting my hearts ans soul, working hard every day and it was over, The managers could not give a damn what you do or how hard you work, as long as they get there paycheck that is all that matters to them, with all the fake smiles, half the time they don't even say hi to you, the worst experience of my life. I can name quite a few people from managers to employees that are a disgrace to the human race. who ever reads this don't think well this guy doesn't know what his talking about, listen all my life i have worked very hard, my work ethics are amazing compare to some of these bums that work there and don't want to do anything besides talk all day long, and get away with it. I just want to thank everyone for reading this, as God my witness I would not lie to you. If you want to reach me: contact me i'll be more then happy to talk to you!

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