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Senior Director at Energy Future Holdings
in Irving, TX

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"TXU gave me opportunities to be creative; rewarded me well for a job well done."

What do you like about working at Energy Future Holdings?

"My co-workers, challenging projects, chance to create innovative solutions, past financial rewards."

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

"Know your stuff, explain clearly, know that it's okay sometimes to say I don't know."

What don't you like about working at Energy Future Holdings?

"Company's current financial position with possible re-structuring, senior leaders' recent lack of focus on the growth of the analytical capabilities."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"For personal sake, please invest and grow marketing analytics capabilities because we are in a fully competitive market."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Director at Pollo Campero
in Dallas, TX

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"rewarding"

What do you like about working at Pollo Campero?

"challenging, rewarding, development, working with franchisees, results oriented. comlex negotiaitins with vendors and real estate."

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

"be true to yourself and challenge the system, there is always a better way to do it."

What don't you like about working at Pollo Campero?

"the bureacracy of dealing with an international based company. Business culture differences"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"open up to your executive teams, do not overlly trustworthy with outside inteferences"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Director at Source Photonics
in Chatsworth, CA

What do you like about working at Source Photonics?

"Great people to work with who are aggressive in making timely decisions."

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

"All I can say is good luck and do well."

What don't you like about working at Source Photonics?

"There is lot of work but the compensation is not in line with my role."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need to do better than what our competitors are doing."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Director at Globant
in San Francisco, CA

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"Growth Challenges..."

What do you like about working at Globant?

"Past work history and people in South America - solid."

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

"The commission plan is bad, the system is set-up to reward the guys at the top of the pyramid only."

What don't you like about working at Globant?

"US management is weak, there are people in business development that should be delivery only. Lost focus on industry expertise."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get Biz Dev professionals doing Biz Dev, not delivery people."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Director at Corporate Executive Board
in Minneapolis, MN

What do you like about working at Corporate Executive Board?

"I like the work I do, but the company culture is both non-existent and not encouraging or empowering."

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

"Use the job to your advantage, make contacts and represent yourself."

What don't you like about working at Corporate Executive Board?

"There are no career paths, no opportunities and no repercussions for those that don't perform, meaning that there is little motivation for those that do."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would reward achievements/achievers and enforce consequences for those that don't perform."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Director at PTC Therapeutics
in South Plainfield, NJ

What do you like about working at PTC Therapeutics?

"yes. Its good place to work and I enjoyed it."

What don't you like about working at PTC Therapeutics?

"I do not have any reason not liking the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would like the management to focus on the merits of the science and drug candidate."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Director at Samsung
in Ridgefield Park, NJ

What do you like about working at Samsung?

"I like the challenging technology and multiple API/SDK structure, making every day something new to deal with related to integration."

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

"Make sure you fully understand the culture before accepting any position."

What don't you like about working at Samsung?

"From a personal perspective, I did not like the way the Korean management team treated me or the other Americans working in NJ."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Respect peoples' knowledge of the business and technology. Reward advanced behavior."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Director at Mohawk Industries
in Marietta, GA

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"Great peers and reports, Executive Level Politics High"

What do you like about working at Mohawk Industries?

"Freedom to tackle interesting projects, team members were great. Decent Personal Freedom. There are some really great people at all levels."

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

"Glad I worked there, but glad I left. Pass on Mohawk if you have a choice. They chew up and spit out people way too fast. Turnover is amazing in some areas. Recognition of work is hit or miss. Few minorities. Much discrimination below the radar for race, age, etc. Women get treated passably well."

What don't you like about working at Mohawk Industries?

"CEO creates sense of insecurity everywhere. Turnover is disturbingly high. They try too hard to save on healthcare and spend too little on employee environments. Office usually are fair at best, awful at worst. Plants are brutally hot."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Value people. Make pay fair, make healthcare better not cheaper. You come off as greedy and only caring about this quarter's money. Enforce regulations and policies fairly without bias. End nepotism."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Director at Asurion
in Nashville, TN

What do you like about working at Asurion?

"Growing business with tons of opportunities to grow professionally. High expectations but rewarded when you are successful."

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

"Understand the company and what we do. We are private so not as easy as getting an analyst report. Ask people!!!"

What don't you like about working at Asurion?

"The expectations are very high and we keep meeting them, which means the bar keeps going up."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More communication to the working team. We have lots of successes as a company but don't always hear about them."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Director at New Century Financial
in Louisville, CO

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"This is a great place to work"

What do you like about working at New Century Financial?

"The freedom to perform my work and build around shared concepts."

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

"Just be yourself and have a dedicated work ethic with a desire to succeed."

What don't you like about working at New Century Financial?

"There has been a new direction that the company is headed, not that its a negative just a new time for the company and a new to time for myself."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue working with the team and progressing the growth of the business."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Director at Trico Technologies
in Brownsville, TX

What do you like about working at Trico Technologies?

"Exceptional people manufacturing an exceptional product - both OEM and mass merchandisers."

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

"I cannot recommend the current leadership of the company; the company is currently for sale for the second time in 2 years."

What don't you like about working at Trico Technologies?

"There was nothing that I did not enjoy about working at Trico."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue designing and manufacturing great products; hire more knowledgeable people in the materials function."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Director at Alfaparf
in Los Angeles, CA

What do you like about working at Alfaparf?

"I like the team work spirit, a good sense of support coming from team members"

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

"not really everybody has hs own background and work ethic and they should be presented during the interview"

What don't you like about working at Alfaparf?

"To many charges in short time that I causing delays in achieving greate results"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"to keep more long term vision and stability as necessity to be more succesfull in the US market"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Director at Yahoo
in Sunnyvale, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"World's largest digital media company."

What do you like about working at Yahoo?

"Having the ability to reach over 700,000,000 users world wide."

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

"Be self driven and self motivated, be an expert in your field."

What don't you like about working at Yahoo?

"Having had 5 CEOs in the past 5 years and a constantly changing direction."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus on our core assets, give projects a chance to succeed."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Director at Silicon Image
in Sunnyvale, CA

What do you like about working at Silicon Image?

"Company has Great technology and good people, good short term future."

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

"Be a good engineer and know how to do product development."

What don't you like about working at Silicon Image?

"I liked working for this company and do not have any thing negative to say."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"All the technology developed is being commoditized - they need to have long term plans. One of the areas they are investing is 60G wireless technology - need better planning to succeed in this area."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Director at RealNetworks
in Seattle, WA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Note that we were rudderless for nearly 8 months and the new CEO just started a handful of weeks ago."

Growth Opportunities 4.1 / 5 Company Culture 2.5 / 5 Way You Work 4.3 / 5
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