Schawk! Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"I have never seen a more mismanaged company. Amway and Sears for clients. Sears is going bankrupt and Amway has dubious politics and business practices. The managing director is an ignorant dictator who thinks he's God's gift to copywriting. He has no clue how to expand business opportunities. He tells art directors how to design all the time and couldn't be more wrong."

"I felt the company played favorites and didn't give job opportunities to people who had a proven portfolio and real world experience. It's the type of place where you could start as a mailroom worker and end up as an Art Director a few years later. I worked there for 15 months and during my time they had 5 rounds of layoffs. People are generally unhappy and are constantly complaining. It made for a very negative work environment."

"My roll at Schawk, Inc was to sit onsite as the point of contact as a vendor to Mentor Worldwide LLC (a Johnson & Johnson company) and manage the production of Schawk, Mentor and various vendors. I produced metrics, data and KPI's to key stakeholders and executive partners."

"I was a sole onsite- production manager representing the company with little to no support. I would like to be back to working with a team of passionate and innovative people."

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

"If you want to get in the door this is the place to do it."

"Employees should be more professional and management should become aware of this"

What do you like about working at Schawk!?

"The professional environment in terms of the building, access to gym and very nice .A few of the employees were very genuine and professional."

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

"Make sure you are a very fast learner, very detail -oriented, can concentrate in a distractive environment. Multi-tasking and understanding procedure of different projects is very important to understand. This job has potential to be a good career but is extremely intimidating in the beginning. It is very hard to grasp everything that is required in the amount of time that is expected. Also, I recommend turning down going to lunch with co-workers, unless you happen to like to drink alcohol during work hours."

What don't you like about working at Schawk!?

"The lack of professionalism among co-workers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"That the management takes a close look at the time that the employees spend at their jobs. Such as the amount of time that is spent talking, gossiping, laughing loud and being disruptive. The job title required a lot of focus and concentration which was very hard to do in the environment."