The Bell Group Reviews

3.0

55% would recommend to a friend

(17 total reviews)

Hugh S Bell

50% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

The Bell Group has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 17 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The The Bell Group 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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17 reviews
2.0
28 Mar 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Laid back culture, decent benefits, located in a great city. The pay can be good if you're moving in from a large city, but many of the associates and underpaid and angry about it. The dress code seems nice at first, but you have too many people that take advantage to the point of wearing shorts and flip flops - very unprofessional. It's a family business and the Bells are a great group of people.

Cons

Lack of opportunities for promotion. The business is managed through a team of business coaches, many of whom don't have the skills or abilities to lead. Also, because the structure is flat (you really won't have a boss), the political climate is like nothing you've seen since high school.

2.0
5 May 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Environment encourages learning, as long as the individual has the ambition to seek it out on his/her own. Can be a very creative place to work, as the team-based system allows for all to contribute; however, many ideas never come to fruition because no one has authority and teams are not allowed to exercise it. It is very laid back and casual dress is acceptable. There seems to be very few rules, which is nice, until you are notified that you're in violation of one that you didn't know existed. Overall, the casualness just leads to ambiguity and ineffectual leadership does nothing to draw the boundaries.

Cons

Is not a professional place to work. More reminiscent of children playing in cliques on a playground than grown ups focused on a job to do. Leadership is incompetent and fails to recognize those in the organization who could be catalysts for change and opportunity for the business. Turnover is extremely high for those in "professional" positions, and colleagues often disappear under murky, unknown circumstances, leaving the teams to pick up the pieces of half-finished projects and numerous responsibilities. "Coaches," or Leadership, are often in the dark concerning the goings-on of teams, and most don't even know what the teams they purport to support do. In addition, the Directors of the company fail to share information, leaving the company fragmented and the right hand wondering what the left is up to. It's unfortunate because the place does attract talented, smart people, who could do amazing work if they were more focused on their jobs and less on the politics and games.

1.0
7 Dec 2016

Stay away from this company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

None that I can think of.

Cons

The owners of the company use coaches instead of the traditional business organization to be their henchmen in order to keep employees in line with their new age culture. When the employee is viewed as out of line with their culture they are abruptly terminated maliciously without notice just before Christmas without any severance or accrued PTO.

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