Working at Ashley Furniture in Arcadia, WI: 11 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Arcadia, WI Area

"Been there for 3 years. Started off good but then there was a change in management and my experience working there changed drastically."

"This is an awesome place to work."

"A very competetive high stress environment."

What do you like about working at Ashley Furniture?

"The work was challenging, the software tools and assigned hardware (HP EliteBook 8740W) was great."

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

"Do not expect to be well respected for your previous experience."

What don't you like about working at Ashley Furniture?

"Too many legacy rules and legacy folks that do not like change very much. I was hired because I had knowledge on the latest development techniques (modules, service programs, SQL stored procedures) but was never successful at being allowed to promote the new techniques."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None that I would want to share, I do not think they would listen anyway."

What do you like about working at Ashley Furniture?

"Not a whole lot. Wish my salary was higher. And less body pain"

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

"Stop turn around and go get a college degree. It kills your body"

What don't you like about working at Ashley Furniture?

"The vacation days are bad(few). The pay and rates are low. Need more. Ther hire terrible workers. Not warehouse ready people"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay the factory workers a little more. Its much desrerved"

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

"Show your positive attitude, willingness to adapt, able to work with a team and independently."

"It is all about numbers, not much loyalty."

What do you like about working at Ashley Furniture?

"Excellent people, excellent training."

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

"If you can't grow the territory +22% a year, look elsewhere."

What don't you like about working at Ashley Furniture?

"Territory cuts, commission cuts, non stop emails and reports."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"lose the reports, get in the field to support your sales staff"

"Ashley Furniture... You ARE going to love this place!"

What do you like about working at Ashley Furniture?

"There is clear direction for where you are going. Each employee is both allowed and expected to contribute their ideas, opinions and profound knowledge to improving, but is also compensated for each idea. The company is large enough to provide nearly ANYONE a great career in their area of choice, but small enough that the owner still greats you as he walks through the parking lot. They share the profits, the vision, the direction and the opportunities, pay for and encourage continuing education, and have great benefits. They even have a $10 on-site health care clinic! I receive great training all the time, and can request more if I want or need it. We all just got a 9% raise in our base pay, while everyone else is taking 10% pay cuts in the companies around us in the area. When they say, You're going to love this place they are NOT kidding! 4 years later, it just keeps getting better."

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

"Be yourself, be straightforward. Don't be afraid to show initiative and ambition. They have small-town values with global resources and opportunities, so reach for the sky. Visit an Ashley Home Store anywhere and look at what the people here make. You'll see the kind of pride that goes into the products. If you can't invest that in a company, skip the interview."

What don't you like about working at Ashley Furniture?

"It can be loud and the air is dry, we don't get a lot of experienced help so training new people can be a challenge, the location isn't very convenient to my home and Wisconsin roads make for tough travel 6 months a year."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There can always be more consistency, in both the communication and the execution of the vision and mission. Production planning could use some increased efficiency that would boost morale and paychecks. More objective evaluations would mean we could target opportunities for training and improvement more accurately."

"Ashley Furniture: Hell hole I would never recommend."

What do you like about working at Ashley Furniture?

"It was close to where I lived at the time.They gave me experience in learning .net technologies and advanced programming techniques."

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

"Look somewhere else. Seriously, if you can move, do it. If you're looking to be a computer programmer, there is nothing in west-central Wisconsin for you besides Ashley. I had to move, and I recommend you stay away from this area if you want to advance your career."

What don't you like about working at Ashley Furniture?

"Pay extremely low and inflexible. Mandatory overtime. Mandatory on call is a major interruption to personal life. Not willing to compensate for extraordinary effort. Not willing to take recommendations to keep up with emerging technologies. Serious office politics. Takes advantage of the fact that it is the only large programming shop in at least 75 miles. Mostly maintenance work, little new development."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay your programmers 30-50% more.Give them 4 weeks of vacation, instead of 2.Make sure new hires understand the mandatory overtime and on-call procedures during the interview."

"I do the best I can to make all my customer happy"

What do you like about working at Ashley Furniture?

"easy to work with the team and good superviser and an good safty, easy work envierment"

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

"the only tip I have is to be safe and work safly"

What don't you like about working at Ashley Furniture?

"theres nothing that I dont like about working any where."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"they do what they do best to keep the company and the people to work safe and bring happyness to our customer"