Working at Gentex in Zeeland, MI: 7 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Zeeland, MI Area

"I only worked at Gentex Corporation for 7 months, but it was a fantastic experience with great gains in learning manufacturing processes, management, continuous improvement, quality and industrial projects. I really enjoyed working at Gentex and working with the people there."

"Gentex is a good company. They were hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and have made a lot of adjustments due to that."

"I have worked for this company for 8 years. Over the span of those years my values and the companies value began to differ. The company is starting to become a more profit focused company instead of an employee and quality focused company. This has been wearing hard on a lot of the employees, providing an overly stressful work environment. The company is at a turning point and they need to decide the direction they want to go."

"Alot of the peolpe who built the company us were let go."

What do you like about working at Gentex?

"It was close to home the people I worked with."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be careful of what you do and say. Watch your back."

What don't you like about working at Gentex?

"My boss who would never listen to things my group recommended"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to your workers like doctors, don't ruin the moral."

What do you like about working at Gentex?

"I like the flexibility I have in how I do my job and the freedom I have to make most decisions. My customer is now one of the top 3 customers at the company and as a result my requests for resources to develop new ideas or solve problems are given priority."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"1. Know what you want to do (electrical design Software coding Process engineering) and have a passion about it during the interview process. 2.Draw on personal and family experiences in your interview to show how you've dealt with adversity or solved problems. Our CEO is very big on family and background and likes to know how you will fit in our culture."

What don't you like about working at Gentex?

"The management team tends to pigeon-hole people instead of give them opportunities for growth. We have very high employeed retention but we do not promote from within very often."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Find ways to develop products that we can sell to make ourselves obsolete. If we don't do that, our competion will do it for us. And, when you have ideas, tell us about them. Let us be part of that development."

What do you like about working at Gentex?

"Great working environment, Impeccable facilities, incredible benefits and profit sharing bonuses."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Potential employees should be wary of being misled with respect to hours that will be worked."

What don't you like about working at Gentex?

"Some management has no social skills and seem to patronize the workers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management should be required to work on the production lines before being put in management positions."

"Boring repeditive work"

What do you like about working at Gentex?

"Decent pay, nice quarterly bouness"

What don't you like about working at Gentex?

"no room for advancement, or knowlage expansion"