CertainTeed Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"CertainTeed Gypsum overall is an 'OK' company to work for"

What do you like about working at CertainTeed?

"Working with the people and growing my knowledge"

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"Corporate communication and involvement; there lack of"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better planning and involvement"

What do you like about working at CertainTeed?

"good management and good working team members."

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"Limited funding for R&D work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More interaction with non-management members."

"Certain Teed has great benifits and is an all round good place to have worked."

What do you like about working at CertainTeed?

"Great benifits, decent pay."

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"Wages are not based on experience."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Sales are low, so hopefully they can pick up sales and stay in business."

"CertainTeed was a good starting point for all of my professional skills."

What do you like about working at CertainTeed?

"CertainTeed paid well and was close to home."

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"CertainTeed was negatively affected by the recession and drop in housing market and layoffs and job classifications changed the environment unfavorably."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None, management was good."

"It was a nice job at that time in my life."

What do you like about working at CertainTeed?

"It was a challenging and rewarding career at that time."

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"The hours were very long and it was a swing shift."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Have permanent shifts for the employees"

"Great company, excellent pay, challenging work enviroment, lot of fun."

What do you like about working at CertainTeed?

"Surrounded by talented people, strong leadership at the plant level, excellent working environment."

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"Company's myopic focus on technical degrees limits growth opportunities within the organization."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Recognize talent regardless of the type of education. Leadership skills can't necessarily be taught and engineering degrees don't make a person better able to lead a diverse work group."

"fair and accurate"

What do you like about working at CertainTeed?

"quality products, strong market acceptance, consistence and ethical business practices"

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

"talk with as many former employees to gain background of company direction interview process is extensive and can be very lengthyemployment opportunities can be unexpectedly placed on hold"

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"too many department silosadvancement for internal candidates limited, many management hires come externallycandidates use CertainTeed as a resume builder / stepingstoneslow to make decisions"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"inpower your people more to make decisionsbetter career developmentfocus more on teamwork and not personal accomplishemnts"

"Avoid"

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"12 hour rotating shifts, extreme temperature conditions, very stressful work, rude nasty environment to work in"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Go out of business. wait they already did lol"

What do you like about working at CertainTeed?

"the co workers and travel time"

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

"be honest in what your looking for in a job or career"

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"not a steady job"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"better planning on work shortages"

What do you like about working at CertainTeed?

"The foreign influence of the company, being French owned, is both good, and bad."

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

"Know that even though some divisions are making money, the company as a whole is losing money."

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"The company works in silos - very poor cross communications between departments."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be willing to accept bad news. You can tell alot about a company by how quickly, or slowly, bad news travels up an organization. The President was very sheltered and rarely met with anyone other than his direct reports. Although I was responsible for the Quality of 5 plants, he never once stepped in to my office, or called me to his office, in 2-1/2 years."

"Very boring working environment."

What do you like about working at CertainTeed?

"First engineering work experience."

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"Routine work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More open to new ideas."

"Understaffed, a ton of work with little appreciation."

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

"Be yourself"

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"The long/odd hours"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire more supervisors, 1 person cannot effectively manage 30+ employees"

"Management suffering through tough economy."

What do you like about working at CertainTeed?

"The clientele and industry associates were a pleasure to work with. It was challenging and rewarding to develop business in the territory."

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

"Be courteous and professional, step up and be proactive."

What don't you like about working at CertainTeed?

"On occasion, irrational decision making affected employee motivation."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Ease up on micromanageing and allow the dedicated employees to work their markets."

"Overall a good place to work."

What do you like about working at CertainTeed?

"The people. Improving the equipment. Working with the team that I helped to create."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Trust your people"