Harland Clarke Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Great job with excellent benefits, but seeing how their main product was checks, it's a dying trade b/c of debit cards."

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"I was basically in charge of my department, although I wasn't considered the team leader. The maintenance dept. was great and would take the time to teach you new things about the printing presses, which I enjoyed. I was responsible for departmental paperwork when the Supervisor was out, proving I was suited to be a supervisor myself."

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

"Not likely they are hiring, but my last year there they brought in all new equipment which was basically like a big Xerox machine, and got rid og the old Heidelberg presses, which made it much easier on the employees b/c everything was computerized."

What don't you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"The 45 minute drive to and from work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None, after they reorganized the company was well managed."

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"The freedom to build strong production teams. Enabled to nurture, mentor and motivate associates as I've seen fit."

"necessary"

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"The excitment and freedom of the job."

What don't you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"The lack of benefits and future."

"Corporate culture was the strangest I've ever come across."

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"Good people (workers)"

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

"Don't walk away...RUN."

What don't you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"My boss's position was way over his head. Politics."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Suicide is painless."

"Totalitarian Management Philosophy in a Dying Industry."

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"I liked my co-workers."

What don't you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"Totalitarian Management Philosophy in a Dying Industry.Zero room for advancement.Pay freeze for hourly employees, while senior leadership team is awarded huge pay raises and bonuses; on the very day that I was laid-off Harland Clarke's CEO and COO awarded themselves pay increases totaling $2.5 million."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Treat your hourly associates with dignity and respect."

"Good place to work if you like doing the same thing with the same technology day in and day out"

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"Coworkers care about their job, their customers, and putting out a quality product."

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

"Not really"

What don't you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"The core product, check and related documents printing, is declining. Unless they build other core products, the company is doomed for extinction."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"You're cutting too deep and losing core competencies that can help lead you into the next generation of products."

"Good company to work for"

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"My, Boss and co-workers"

What don't you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"career advancement opportunities"

"This is an honest opinion."

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"The work was stable. I gained experience."

What don't you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"Having to pass invasive drug tests."

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"My department was multi-functional, I really enjoysed working with a wide variety of other departments."

What don't you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"I'm not there anymore."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I've been gone from there for over a year, really can't answer."

"Very exciting!"

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"The relationships with my accounts and employees at the company."

What don't you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"To much time out of the field for items such as conference calls."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More focus on the customers."

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"the people in production"

What don't you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"upper management is real snutty"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"get a personality and some integrity"

"None"

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"The advancement opportunities."

What don't you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"The fellow employees"

"I enjoy my position but believe that my opportunity is limited because of mature industry."

What do you like about working at Harland Clarke?

"My division is tagged as growth engine but encumbered by mature market and cost cuts."

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

"This is a very mature industry that focus more on cost out the future development."

"New Braunfels location-Training was always TERRIBLE except the very first training with Kristin, after it was never the same. Adrian Smith was very unfocused and didn't make sure employees were fully knowledgeable on the project. Therefore, we went into the project not fully having access to the system we would be handling and then forced to assist with ordering checks even though we hadn't been correctly trained, we were prompted to learn ourselves through a poor power point on the knowledge management resource, which changed after training- which made what we learned in training "irrelevant" according to Linda Cameron. Magda Ellis and Linda Cameron were completely unorganized and didn't make it easy to understand simple tasks that supervisors SHOULD already know. Were Very inconsistent with entering exceptions for time to workforce and would tell employees to double check to make sure it got entered ... (Not our job, it's theirs) & They would leave during training and then give attitude when asked questions, and then take their PTO right after training would end- & the program would start.. as though to escape their responsibility at the beginning with assisting the Call agents questions, which would result in us having messed up unaccounted shrinkage due to only one supervisor being present and putting in the times for all call reps- resulting in people getting fired prematurely. They would ignore questions and then blame contractors for mess ups in authentication steps. When I brought attention to these errors and inconsistency- I got let go. Being told it was due to authentication but I had been working there longer than 6months and they still tried to say it was due to failed authentication, and not the fact that I kept calling them out on their unprofessional actions. Not to mention them completely changing the authentication list abruptly and agents still weren't too savvy on the net"

"Small company (8 people), and overseen by a parent company in the UK."