Carpenter Technology Corporation Employee Reviews
Out of 71 Carpenter Technology Corporation employee reviews, 48% were positive. The remaining 52% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Carpenter Technology Corporation improve their work culture.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Tend to Work well together
I had nothing complain about My management team is pretty good The upper management beyond them and that's another story.
They are never at the plant
They know a lot they are very knowledgeable.
Advocate for junior associates to step up and be leaders in a safe risk taking environment
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Build trust and learning. You are force feeding and not coaching leaders. Develop people and move out of the way. Be proud they did things and not be narcissistic untrusting "professional confronting" "must keep the tension" managers (these execs are not leaders). They don't know what they are doing
Listen to employees and appreciate their efforts.
Experience people know what there doing
Change the current leaders. They will never "get it" BOD needs to hear what is going on.
Needs to listen to employees and lead instead of micro managing all. Poor performance comes from financial driven management and not developing employees.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Health insurance and 401k match
Fair pay, you can work overtime
Can offer stock. Bonus can be fair.
Fair pay and benefits. 401k is good.
Pay and the 401 contributions
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Paid for all the time having to earn others pay
Better pay rates and benefits
Listen to our ideas and allow us to change processes. Don't keep telling us to do what you want and then tell us to do it faster.
Improve the benefits and show us that they actually care
Compensation is average, bonus is small
What are some of the best things about your team?
We Collaborate well across sites
Willing to help and experts on their field.
Exec leaders in meetings are silent until the end and then unleash h3ll on their meeting members from the sites. Very unprofessional and "old school" 1980 style.
I like my coworkers, we try to support each other.
I lead my team through accountability and trust
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Good workers do the work, lazy ones lay back and watch.
Get back to holding people accountable
All the good people are leaving or have left. No consideration of helping, just dump the workload on others and wipe hands clean.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Management teams work well together
I wish we could have social interactions and more fun stuff going on.
Team members supporting each other to drive performance
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Communication and work life balance
Upper management is pretty clueless, middle management is trying to survive.
Get rid of the executive management and replace from within
Get a turn-around leader than can make this great. Get rid of 'consulting VP's' that cause miss-trust
Senior members of leadership are not leading, or do people want to follow them. Change the leaders to make culture change positive. The board needs to wake up that they have an underutilized culture that is defecting away from the company.
What did you like most about the interview process?
It was informative and open
Interaction with hiring manager and senior leaders
Slow, leaders don't know what questions to ask.
People seemed to care about who they hire.
They promised a lot, but found out fast, it was all lies.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Too many interviews and insignificant questions.
Stop asking about how you would handle a situation with another employee and start asking what skills you bring to the table
What makes you most happy at work?
I like to be challenged
Days off. They always look to blame others
Ability to have an impact with co-workers that care
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Executive management needs to he replaced.
More technical people to support
Too many items are around leadership. Managers are overly demanding because of the pressure put on them from above. Imagine having to justify all that you do every day in a weekly report. This standard of mistrust is rampant through the leadership. They also don't know how to handle challengers too.
Sometimes no days off for months, cant take more than 2 weekends off a year, working holidays.
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
New management staff is needed