Evonik Corporation Outlook Employee Reviews

My coworkers and the team spirit they share.

Changes and improvements to systems and processes.

Review from HR Dept

Interacting with my coworkers, solving problems, and watching the site grow and mature into the fantastic place it is becoming.

My job is fast-paced and challenging. There are always new and exciting customer projects, and so I am always learning and developing in my field.

Finishing my tasks for the day.

Good coworkers. Overtime is usually optional rather than forced.

Knowing that I'm making medicine to improve patients' quality of life makes me the most happy at work.

Review from Engineering Dept

Interacting with the team to accomplish goals.

I like the problem solving and the people on my team

Review from Engineering Dept

get my work done, interaction with my team

Challenging responsibilities that contribute to my professional development and to business success, collaboration with supportive and capable colleagues

Working with the people and my manager.

When I can complete tasks on my own

Review from Finance Dept

Working closely with different groups

Personal interactions and seeing successes - locally and company wide

Seeing large efforts come to a successful result.

Being able to do my work and not be micromanaged. I am expected to get things done and go home

The feeling of being productive. We manufacture goods to our customers that is of good quality that will go into products that will help people.

completing a task that I have started

Interacting with the people. As a supervisor it is satisfying helping people meet their goals and grow.

honesty, equal pay for equal work, make our company more attractive to people buy giving wages more inline with other companies in the area so we are not short handed and do not need as many contractors

Work Environment The way people at the site communicate Instead of fixing problems, we like to patch and keep it moving only to have the issue resurface time after time.

Review from Customer Support Dept

The primary issue is the level of staffing in process engineering and operators. The operators must have a more competitive starting pay, the experienced operators pay is competitive, but the starting pay plus refusal to recognize non-chemical manufacturing experience kills recruiting.

Communication needs to be improved.

Overtime ruins my motivation at the start of each week. Most of the time we don't need OT, but we do not get called off because they tend to dig around and try to find a reason to keep us. Scheduling OT a month ahead really puts a damper on motivation and overall morale.

Too much work / too few people. Hire more people.

The lack of transparency and feedback. Lack of prioritization from upper management until the last minute with the expectation to execute flawlessly. Expectation to go above and beyond but Evonik, the company, does not go above and beyond for employees.

Review from Engineering Dept

The culture, salaries, not having to be putting fires every day

Review from Finance Dept

I'm involved in too many projects and get overwhelmed and frustrated. There is constant change which can be a positive thing, but with Evonik, it's happening way too often. You finally get used to a system or a way of doing things, and then it changes. And not always for the better.

Review from HR Dept

I am scared to speak to my leadership team about my supervisor due to his 30+ years with the company. Others have spoken up and he has been scolded and not given reportees but now I am under him and I have no one to go to with my concerns. - Birmingham Location

Review from Engineering Dept

There is a lack of long term vision and realistic path to get there. There are a lot of visions and plans, but they never feel attainable or rooted in reality, so you feel set up to fail, and that is demoralizing. The hardest strain in difficult times is always placed on the same people.

Review from Engineering Dept

Job structure, what is everyone's role and how do they fit together to make a project run successfully.

Review from Engineering Dept

No responsibility to the clients. Many failure. No clear strategy. No appreciation of input. Everything has to run over upper managment

There is no accountability of support functions. I do not feel empowered to be able to do my job.

Review from Engineering Dept

salary needs to be improved

Review from Marketing Dept

Nothing is going wrong. Im just not excited about work in general. Only sometimes I am excited.

Review from Engineering Dept

Employees spread too thin, overloaded. Address the workload by hiring workers.

My individual site needs to grow beyond "everyone has a side job" We must accept that certain headcounts are necessary to keep work moving through our inadequate systems

Life-work balance. Proper compensation - strictly salary - for dedicated and hard-working employees (do not include benefits, relocation, etc.).

Shifts in manufacturing schedule causes a great deal of stress. Fix the schedule so employees don't have to cancel plans or hire a babysitter to work off hours and weekends.