W.L. Gore & Associates Employee Reviews
Out of 69 W.L. Gore & Associates employee reviews, 73% were positive. The remaining 27% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping W.L. Gore & Associates improve their work culture. The Operations team, with 75% positive reviews, reports the best experience at W.L. Gore & Associates compared to all other departments at the company.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
They manage up. Leaders only care how they perform in how they are seen by their superior
Review from Operations Dept
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Open communication and collaboration, listen to feedback.
The leadership team is not a group of bosses or micromanagers. They value input from the teams that they lead.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Doing their jobs they are getting the big bucks to do.
Remembering the core values that built the company. Remove the outside influence of people who Bill Gore chose to get away from for good reasons.
The leadership team needs to be accountable for their actions. Most people are promoted because they are status jockeying not because they qualify.
ELT needs to understand the company, not assume the context is like every other organization trying to implement IT systems.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Profit shares, ASOP, vacation time, etc.
The health insurence. It is very good for the whole family.
Benefits. Vaction time. Sick time.
Medical insurace, sick, bereavement leave are very good.
Focus on my health and well-being, life quality and future.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
We are on the floor and hear from people at home how we missed something!
Review from Operations Dept
Fair pay for work performed.
What are some of the best things about your team?
Great teamwork, the culture is unique and sets the tone for working together.
Trustworthy and authentic engagement without politics.
They are super nice, they are also very fair.
Work well with eachother. Always willing to help.
Very self motivated, hard working and dedication to keep the company safe for everyone.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Information is not distributed at meetings so that all stakeholders are involved. It is distributed through social networks. This makes no sense for critical systems and controlled environments. It's complete chaos.
They need to know that being the best friend iof your leader is making of a broke team.
Review from Operations Dept
Less gossiping and lies to ensure they get pay raises above peers.
Better training in scrum and the space in which they are working. Or get mentor training from a large IT consulting company- once methodology is ironed out and expected roles and responsibilities are flushed out then the IT projects should be much easier to implement.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Not a fear-based culture but rather one that builds everyone up and respects each person as an associate - a partner - rather than just an employee to boss around.
A cukture of fairness, leadership, and petsonal career growth (self-directed).
The people I work with are great.
Vacation time and knowing I have more.
Review from Operations Dept
Freedom to make own decisions above the waterline.
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Leadership accountability. Currently Medical Products division, leadership has not properly trained and routinely breaks labor laws.
Don't pretend to care about employees and promise fairness when you don't fairly reward or compensate. It comes off as manipulative. Ambitious smart people don't want to work for people who don't value and respect them.
What did you like most about the interview process?
Interactive experience that felt like i was interviewing the company while they were inerviewing me to ensure it was a good fit all around.
It was fast, quick and easy.
This goes back 15 years but great group of people. Made the interview pleasant.
Felt valuable to the people who interviewed me.
The interview process is different with every team that you interview with
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Faster communication and increased visibility to the process.
Get experienced people to interview senior mgt contractors
What makes you most happy at work?
The work we do matters and has a real positive impact. It really feels like everyone cares about making the world a better place.
Being challenged and rewarded for meeting and exceeding business goals.
I am most happy when my work is fulfilling and appreciated
Review from Operations Dept
Working with a few real people.
Having fun while making money.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Culture is a pretense. Decide what you want to be and be honest about it.
Work on the toxic bullying environment between “senior” newly hired associates and competent contractors or jr associ
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