78 Director of Product Development Reviews
Submit a ReviewWhat do you like about working at Multi-Flow?
"As the Director of 4 different departments, the work that I did encompassed a broad expanse of topics. This afforded me the opportunity to continually learn and grow."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"If the quality of the work environment and industry leading compensation are among your chief goals, I would advise looking elsewhere."
What don't you like about working at Multi-Flow?
"Erratic leadership became pervasive a couple of years subsequent to being purchased by a private equity company."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Source a new CEO and reboot. the company has great potential if it can find a new vision."
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"Very fast-paced environment, but always kept up."
What do you like about working at Sylmark?
"Highly creative role within a fast-paced company that encouraged creativity."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be ready to demonstrate a willingness to prevail strongly in any situation, particularly with suppliers."
What don't you like about working at Sylmark?
"The fast paced environment was extreme, due to the DRTV industry"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"I would advise management to be less critical of design staff in the face of prototypes recieved from low cost suppliers who most often chose to ignore several documented design details and provide their own solutions in certain areas, to save cost at the expense of diminishing functionality and appearance."
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"Fun activities. Lacks consistency in vision, direction and tools to do the job."
What do you like about working at Del Sol?
"The company culture is based on fun. They do many fun actitivies and outings."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Like any interview be positive and try to accentuate the fun. They like quirky attitudes and people that do unusual things."
What don't you like about working at Del Sol?
"The fun atmosphere permeates the management and there are constant changes. The management is out of touch with the needs of day to day work. Some people are searching for things to do and others are doing the work of 3-4 people but cannot get any help."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Learn about each area and trust the people on the ground don't filter everything through the manager. Many issues caused by managers are covered up."
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"Hard work but gratifying"
What do you like about working at Mangrove Employer Services?
"It is a fast paced leading edge of technology place. Everyday is new and exciting"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Though it is exciting and ever changing, it is not for everyone. Productivity is key."
What don't you like about working at Mangrove Employer Services?
"My growth potential is gone. In addition to that the Lean Enterprising approach sometimes keeps me in the office for 12+ hours"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Update the management style to a more 21st century approach."
What do you like about working at Age Group?
"Wow. This is going to be a struggle. The location of the office is nice."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid."
What don't you like about working at Age Group?
"The co-owners' main method of communication is screaming. Not shouting, screaming. It is so tense on a daily basis. There is never a civilized conversation. It's a shouting match."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Retire. Plain and simple. Retire. And don't let nepotism or favoring people of a certain religion get in the way of hiring and supporting the right, qualified people."
What do you like about working at West Marine?
"Corporate offices located near Santa Cruz, CA and there is the opportunity to use the company sail boat if you like. The Store environment is very positive and energetic.There are a couple of newer Board Members with legitimate Retail backgrounds (not just sailing buddies) so they are pushing for more out of the CEO and Exec team which is great... they should push harder."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Play up your boating experience and background. You should be OK working in an environment where you have very little control over your business as management micro manages. Change agents need not apply as you will be very frustrated with the lack of support."
What don't you like about working at West Marine?
"No pay for performance, mediocre benefits. Decision by committee culture results in low creativity and no accountability for individuals. Annual bonus are redesigned each year to pay out less and less and there is no personal component to the calculation. The executive team is too heavily focused on politics between their silos. Secure job but most of the A-players inevitably leave as they are continually blocked from making real strides forward. Culturally, this company is old and stodgy and once hired your position will likely not change for many years, nor will you salary as annual increases barely go above 1-2.5%. The company is showing year over year profits which is great, unfortunately, a large bulk of this is from bonus restructuring and the primary competitor going out of business."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Reward people for performance. Promote people based on skill sets rather than reputation, favored status, or perception. Allow new ideas that are out of the box. Aspire for larger growth over all. Fire non performers w/o regard to their familial connections to Execs. Pay more to attract real performers and then add incentive's for retention."
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"Victim of new role in tough economy."
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"Was great, now just good."
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