7 Middle Manager Reviews
Submit a ReviewWhat do you like about working at Eskom?
"Purpose: If we get it right we can have an enormous positive effect on the entire country. Getting it right means providing cheap, reliable, consistent, clean energy. So there is a really good reason for the company to exist and a really good reason to try and make it work."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Rather go and work in the private sector. Be prepared to wait a long time for the outcome of the interview. If you're looking for a job where you just get paid and you're not too fussy about contributing - this is for you."
What don't you like about working at Eskom?
"Eskom is a platform to make management very rich without any accountability to the public that they serve. It is status and greed driven. Inexperienced and incompetent senior managers put more and more controls in place to ensure their staff do not take advantage of them (do as I say not what I do). There is no feedback, the game changes every day, initiatives are not realised, planning is poor. Staff have little accountability."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"I would restate the companies objective. Then I would check to ensure that what the company is doing is enabling it to achieve that objective. I would refocus the work on the objective. I would turn management on its head and make management an enabling function not a controlling one. Managers would have to define the objectives, provide the tools and systems and training, and unblock issues. I would allow the workers to do their jobs, be professional, be creative, and deliver on the objectives. I would get rid of most of the controls (like hour tracking clock-in sheets) and empower people to be responsible. I would hold management accountable and ensure accountability is rolled down throughout the organisation. I would trust people to support the company. I would ensure we had metrics and data to be able to understand how well we were achieving our objectives. I would ensure people knew what was expected of them and remove uncertainty, create autonomy, refocus on status being earned and not your job title, promote relatedness and consistency. I would ensure people were informed and felt useful and in control. Thats just to start with."
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"Rattle the handle after a complete flush"
What do you like about working at Universal Instruments?
"Employees still care about what they do. Nice view from the building."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Don't sign non-compete contracts. Keep your other options open. Network your way to success (outside the company)."
What don't you like about working at Universal Instruments?
"Management and executives have MBA's but don't seem to connect with people (customers and employees)."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Read these reviews and others online and realize that investors and customers read the same stuff! You can spend 10 years trying to build value back into the place but past mistakes have destroyed much of what would be valued in the electronics assembly industry. For the sake of those left, please refocus on what made UIC great. I'd love to come to a UIC Clambake knowing that there will be one next year."
What do you like about working at City of Flagstaff?
"Not having any real responsibilities or authority for anything, and no accountability for screw ups and still getting paid for it."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Practice only. If you really want the job, make sure you are related to someone in human resources. Must be able to brown-nose and say yes to everything. Thinking people need not apply."
What don't you like about working at City of Flagstaff?
"Underqualified, uneducated, hypocritical and lying managers who lack talent and vision and who would rather cover up for incompetent suboordinates than correct real problems."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Keep raising your own pay, hiring your husbands, wives, kids, and friends, and for God's sake, go back and get your GED..."
Middle Manager Career Rating Comparison
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Do yourself a favor...if you like life, interview elsewhere. There are no benefits other than a paycheck in working at this company."
What don't you like about working at Natel Engineering?
"Just about everything. Nepotism, favoritism, management by fear, hostile workplace, not knowing from one day to the next whether you are in favor or out."
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"Tough times for the industry"
What do you like about working at Ciba Specialty Chemicals?
"Lots of good folks"
What don't you like about working at Ciba Specialty Chemicals?
"Too much top down micro management. Short term focus at the highest levels."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"None - the company has been acquired. Hopefully they will not repeat the same mistakes"
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