International Paper Employee Reviews
Out of 205 International Paper employee reviews, 70% were positive. The remaining 30% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping International Paper improve their work culture. The Operations team, with 49% positive reviews, reports the best experience at International Paper compared to all other departments at the company.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Training, education, degrees, cleaner backgrounds.
Review from Engineering Dept
Take advice from employees be open minded about their ideas, allow employees to have a voice in the condition of the machines they work on daily
Review from Operations Dept
Removing obstacles. Broken parts need replaced scheduling needs to be more fluid. Listen to those in production if everybody is having the same issues fix them don't ignore them. Be proactive and not reactive
EVERYTHING! Every aspect of his job needs improvements
Review from Engineering Dept
Work/life balance and employee recognition
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
COLA is 4-6% a year in this area raises avg 2% we fall behind each and very year, yet they close plants while expecting to produce the same volume with fewer locations and equipment turn record profits yet "can't afford to raise wages"
Review from Product Dept
I think that all employees, including us on the manufacturing floor, should have some sort of stock investment option. Health benefits could absolutely be better. Also, it would be amazing to get paid every week.
I feel the co makes you do too much to receive your bonus
PTO should be accrued way faster and lots of Saturdays worked. It's a turn off and definitely is a key reason why the company has a difficult time holding on to new employees.
Need sick time, pto , if your child is sick and you have to call out, you do not get paid. Also even with a doctors excuse you still get a point for missing work
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Theyvwill hire anyone so you are constantly expected to do the next guys work for the same amount of pay that he gets to sleep tge whole shift
Give them a culture worth the buy in.
Review from Operations Dept
Treat new employees as you would a stranger on the street.
Get off the phone pay attention to the job. Be put with like minded workers. Being put with those that do less then the bare minimum cause they know you'll pick up the slack is exhausting. There are no more good days.
Stop with the highschool drama
Review from Engineering Dept
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Actually interview and have a more in depth hiring process. We literally hire guys that cant read a tape measure here
Management!!! All management positions are filled but not being fulfilled!
Be treated with respect, and allow my opinion to be heard
Review from Operations Dept
Action to words. There motto is safety, quality, and quantity. It is anything but.
Stop treating some employees better than other employees
Review from Engineering Dept
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Listen to the skill your candidates posses and utilize them.
You have to go thru 100 hoops to get in and start making money. We have families to feed, time is of the essence.
Review from Operations Dept
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
More customer focus and less focus on IP.
Customer complaints are mainly quality issues. Caused by poorly kept or out dated equipment. Fix the machines as a hole. Don't fix one part while another is broken fix it all. Numbers come before anything else because this is what drives are pay. Broken machines count against you. Stop this
Fire everyone and restart! Horrible
Review from Engineering Dept
Management has turned to managing by fear and intimidation. The company has been taken over by bullies!
Review from Operations Dept
employees are tired from all the additional hours
Review from Operations Dept
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Increased focus on people in terms of hiring the right people that are qualified for the jobs they are hired to do and retaining the people and talent we already have.
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