268 Purchasing Agent Reviews
Submit a Review"I love building relationships to help my employer receive the greatest return on their investment, not only in me as an employee but in the product and materials that I procure for use in manufacturing or MRO buys."
"Lots of counterfeit parts make the job extremely stressful at times. Constant market fluctuation. Liked the ability to earn high commissions."
"I love the challenges this field brings to the table, from negotiating the best deal for the company as well as maintain a professional friendships with vendors. All while supporting a positive attitude toward individuals."
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"Great experience, but nothing I would ever go back to."
What do you like about working at Sakti3?
"Pros: Aside from the CEO, the COO, and the Finance Manager every associate within the company is amazing to work with! Wholesome breakfasts are provided once every week during the company's Sync meeting with our CEO. The work is challenging and every position within the company allows for personal growth and development"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"I don't recommend taking a job with this company if you plan on having time to devote to your family or your social life."
What don't you like about working at Sakti3?
"The CEO is more of a politician than a business leader. She claims to have created an amazing culture within the company using non-threatening tactics and has years of experience growing people. The culture is mock-worthy and the culture she has created is more of a cult-like experience where everyone, including the COO and Finance Manager, pretends to drink the Kool-aid. We all enjoy working with each other, but find her personality to be very Jekyll and Hyde. She loves to humiliate people by excoriating them in large groups and uses her weekly Sync time to put herself up on a pedestal. She inserts herself into every project that goes on in the company and obsesses over details such as font size, and text placement on Powerpoint slides. These OCD tactics tend to slow down efficiency, bring down morale and increase frustration. The CEO claims to have a photographic memory, but consistently forgets directions that she has given or emails that she has written. The COO of the company pretends to have the little guy's interest at heart, but never walks the walk. He has a tendency to micro-manage and borderline harrass his employees while they are attempting to complete projects or tasks. The Finance Manager is abrasive, rude, and condescending. She has absolutely no customer service skills and is willing to place blame on anyone but herself. She lacks a personality and should not be allowed to interact with people inside or outside of the company. The average hours worked by the technical staff are between 11-12+ hours a day. There were promises of expanding and hiring associates for other shifts, but instead the company laid off over 26% of their workforce and increased the workload for everyone left. They used the employees to prepare the company for a downsize and then gave them their pink slips when they were through with them. Management lied to the staff saying that there was plenty of work to go around when questions started to get asked. The CEO offered stock options to every associate within the company and tries to use the owner mentality to guilt us into working longer hours or take on more work. In reality, the stock options offered to employees without a management or engineering title amount to very little and are not worth the effort she is requesting from front-line staff. She preaches about being transparent, honest, and logical, but hides behind closed doors all day while advertising an open door policy. She demands appreciation, recognition, and thanks and when it is not given she will remind you to say thank you or to ask her how she is doing."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Be realistic about what an individual can accomplish in a typical work day. An 11-12+ hour shift a few times a week is acceptable, but asking people to sacrifice time with their families, friends and or give up a social life is ridiculous. Don't obssess over the details. You have hired intelligent people who know how to do their jobs, so let them! Don't use fear tactics and humiliation to get what you want. You only turn the culture you've created into something to mock, the most mock-worthy thing being yourself. Don't demand or request respect. It comes to those who are worthy of receiving it. Don't lecture. If you want to continue being a professor, then you should never have started a business. Employees want the facts, not your opinion. Don't pretend to be something that you're not. Photographic memory is something that can be learned and if you cannot remember an email that you wrote, a task that you've given, or the name of one of your employee's children, then you probably don't have a eidetic memory."
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"The organization is not very good to work for."
What do you like about working at Harrison Electric?
"Other than the owners, I like the people that I work with in general. I"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Make sure you have a skill set when applying for any position within the company."
What don't you like about working at Harrison Electric?
"I do not like that some people in management do nothing all day and spend most of their day on Facebook. There is a total lack of communication and organization on the owner's part. I also do not like the way the owners talk to people and throw things when they get upset."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Become more professional! Use more strategic planning instead of being reactive they could be proactive."
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"blankets , located alterantive vendors, expedited all items"
What do you like about working at GE Aviation?
"growth exciting neve a dull movenent ,interaction with fellow employess"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"calm ansewer answer alll question to the best of your ability, and most imporant always tell the truth"
What don't you like about working at GE Aviation?
"growth secure positin rewards for achievemnets interation with vendor, always learning new things"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"provide steady and and secure work enviroment, provide time for traning for any new software"
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"Good place to learn computer techonology."
What do you like about working at DIT Computers?
"Always learn new technology and meet many customers and help them about their computers."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"It's a Vietnamese family own business and very tricky on salary/pay."
What don't you like about working at DIT Computers?
"Very low pay and no raise for couple of years."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Trust your employees and let them manage their own store, review employee annually."
What do you like about working at Norwegian Cruise Line?
"Innovation is key to the continous growth of a company."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be honest during the interview process. Due diligence in getting to know how the company is doing overall."
What don't you like about working at Norwegian Cruise Line?
"The room for advancement is limited at the management level."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Management needs to be open and honest with team members at all times."
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"If I am a librarian or if I am on a silent movie this will be great but I'm not"
What do you like about working at NTK Aviation America?
"NO PRESSURE , NO STRESS , JUST CHILL AND BE CHATTY TO GET AHEAD."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"If your retiring and you don't need pressure or not looking for personal growth then this is the company you want to work for until you reach the age of retirement. VERY SLOW PACE NO STRESS"
What don't you like about working at NTK Aviation America?
"VERY SLOW PACE AND NO ROOM FOR GROWTH , ,"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Some of their policies are ridiculous. Management exercises favoritism on an obvious scale. The compensation is hardly enough to get by."
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"I negotiate contracts and act as a liaison for the department"
What do you like about working at KB Home?
"I love what I do and am able to work independently. My boss trusts me to get the job done correctly. I have a strong understanding of the process and feel confident in the work I produce."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"You must be a hard worker and be willing to cross departmental lines. Job descriptions do not matter at KB Home; everyone helps as needed to ensure the job is done correctly and on time."
What don't you like about working at KB Home?
"There is a lack of career growth opportunity in our division. I am qualified to move on but the structure is such that there is no room for a next level of management in my department."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"I would ask they re-evaluate the promotion system for all employees. I would also suggest a yearly review of supervisory staff by their subordinates."
What do you like about working at IES Residential?
"I enjoyed the flexability of working in the office and getting in the field."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"When interviewing get everything you may be concerned about in the open and if things do not seem professional then that should be a warning to you."
What don't you like about working at IES Residential?
"I felt that there was no growth potential and no support to myself or the field personnel."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"My suggestion would be to support your employees and hold subcontractors accountable."
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"The best company to work for, culture , growth, CEO is the best."
What do you like about working at PADI?
"The people culture growth best company I ever worked for."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"put your best foot forward and get in the door, PADI promotes education and advancement"
What don't you like about working at PADI?
"the distance 55 miles from home 110 round tripsometime the drive would be 2-3 hrs if traffic or weather was bad."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"keep doing what you are doing,nPADI runs a top notch organization."
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"great learning experience with great leadership"
What do you like about working at Reliable Electric?
"I learned about all aspect of supply chain managment, including R&D and foriegn supply and scheduling."
What don't you like about working at Reliable Electric?
"division was sold to MacLean Fogg and was driven into harsh environment"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Provide positive feedback and encourage development of staff for growth"
What do you like about working at Reliable Electric?
"This was a great proving ground for innovative thinking with project and time management skills being improved for multI tasking and project completion."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Know the market and products being sold, since this is a diverse and complicated field for energy and telecommunications."
What don't you like about working at Reliable Electric?
"The entire division was sold to a competitor after completing several key sector improvements that I played a major role in developing and putting into production."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Keep an eye on the margin improvement and product quality, as corners are cut to reduce weight and improve performance of various products."
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"This company has an unreasonable GM who manages via fear and humiliation."
What do you like about working at Multi Sales?
"The company has good benefits and a casual dress code, and there are some good people there. They have merit based quarterly bonuses. Very few employees earn them, but if you work hard and have a service minded attitude, your manager can reward you. There is an employee discount program that can save you a lot of money if you ever need to buy a new garage door or related parts and equipment. The company has a good location, close to the 91 freeway."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"If you are applying for a purchasing position at MultI Sales, I hope you enjoy learning on your own with very little support and training from a manager who is almost never available and who will let you take the blame for his own mistakes when the pressure is on. He'll change his story and claim he didn't instruct you to do something a certain way when he's in the hot seat. It's sad because otherwise he's a very nice guy and not unpleasant to work for. But his unwillingness to take full responsibility outweighs all of his positive attributes as a boss.You also must enjoy being micromanaged by the company's general manager, who will repeatedly insult you in front of co-workers, telling you you're stupid and incompetent (in spite of your earning merit based bonuses for your exemplary job performance). After his escalating harassment fails to break your spirit, and instead of quitting, you start putting in more and more hours without pay to try to keep up with the impossible workload, eventually he will tell you that you're being paid way too much and finally will let you go as a reward for your dedication and hard work. This is a recurring pattern for buyers at this company!This general manager oversteps the spineless manager of the purchasing department and he tries to micromanage the purchasing department, but he doesn't have any experience in purchasing and doesn't understand the first thing about running a successful purchasing department. The actual manager of the purchasing department is afraid for his own job, so he doesn't do anything to stop this; he enables it. As long as this General Manager is there--his initials are T.H.--I don't think it's possible to be successful in a purchasing role in this company. If all of this sounds good to you, then good luck. If you are someone who works hard, does a good job, and takes ownership of your work and responsibility for your actions, and you have any self respect whatsoever, then I would recommend you do not interview at all for a purchasing position with this company because you will soon become just another statistic in a long line of former buyers."
What don't you like about working at Multi Sales?
"This company has a very bad pattern: In approximately 4 years, they have burned through 7 buyers in a purchasing department of only 3. You do the math. Something is very wrong there.The general manager rules by intimidation, fear, and humiliation. Most people in the company are constantly looking for someone else to blame mistakes on because they are so afraid of being fired and/or being humiliated in front of their peers at the next meeting. It's very difficult to function productively and work together as a team in an environment with this kind of fear and anxiety constantly present.One very minor thing that never bothered me personally, but that some employees complain about in private, is the rotating schedule to clean the employee kitchen once a month. If you're lazy and/or don't like cleaning up the messes of inconsiderate co-workers, you won't like having to clean the kitchen once a month at the end of your workday."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Expand the purchasing department to add at least one additional person, and get the general manager to take a step back and stop putting an impossible workload on the buyers that no one can fulfill without working 24/7. (Ideally I would say get rid of the general manager entirely, as he is going to cause every quality employee to leave eventually.)"
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