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"Being a product manager is like being a mini-CEO without all the negatives that come with being a CEO. I love it."
Posted 10 years ago in Redwood City, CA
Senior Product Manager at Jarden Consumer Solutions
in Boca Raton, FL

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Poor employee development programs and a lack of accountability with employees."

What do you like about working at Jarden Consumer Solutions?

"Location and the work hours are nice with hours being 8:30am to 5:30pm."

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

"Make sure you have a defined career path before you start here."

What don't you like about working at Jarden Consumer Solutions?

"The inability to advance in you career and the lack of accountability within the office."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Develop talent better instead of milking it and waiting for them to leave."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 2 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Senior Product Manager at Syniverse
in Campbell, CA

What do you like about working at Syniverse?

"Strong customer focus, Extremely financial driven, Very Very process oriented"

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

"nothing in specific. go in prepared for the interview and good luck."

What don't you like about working at Syniverse?

"Lacks focus on innovation initiatives, extremely margin driven, Lacks accountability in some levels."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"rectify some of the opportunity areas mentioned earlier. manage satellite offices better"

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

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"company struggling to make profit"

What do you like about working at Onvia?

"great co-workers within company and are smart and fun to work with"

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

"It is a struggling company working to make profitability although its been around over 10 years"

What don't you like about working at Onvia?

"lack of management vision and execution. Need to focus and better communcate"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"identify and stick to the vision. provide guidance for career developmement"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Product Manager at AT&T
in Oklahoma City, OK

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Stifled, and no room for promotion or advancement."

What do you like about working at AT&T?

"Employee discounts are pretty good on everything but mobile devices."

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

"Don't do it, they will steal your soul and leave you with nothing"

What don't you like about working at AT&T?

"No promotion potential for non minorities. Was told since I'm a white male I could not be promoted."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Promote based on qualifications, recalculate target base salaries to track with inflation."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Senior Product Manager at Autodesk
in San Francisco, CA

What do you like about working at Autodesk?

"Great people and company who want to change the world by creating software that enables other people to make the real changes."

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

"Know the engineering and design worlds as they exist today and ask questions about how Autodesk is trying to shake those worlds up."

What don't you like about working at Autodesk?

"On the whole there are some pretty miserable managers. It's not that they couldn't be good, it's that they've never been trained to do their jobs well."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would push divisions to cross-pollinate more often. There is a strong 'me first' culture that is left over from the previous CEO."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Product Manager at Autodesk
in San Rafael, CA

What do you like about working at Autodesk?

"Autodesk creates cutting edge products and works with cutting edge customers. Each day can be exciting and the people that work there are fun to work with and to get to know."

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

"Change is the norm at Autodesk. If you enjoy an environment that is very fluid, this is a great place to work."

What don't you like about working at Autodesk?

"It is a large corporation, so sometimes people get lost in the process."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Sometimes it would be good to give an idea a little time to take hold before changing directions."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Product Manager at SuperMedia
in Dallas, TX

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Good in general; however the advancement is none to slim."

What do you like about working at SuperMedia?

"It has good people and you can trust them; environment is good."

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

"Make sure you are looking for growth opportunities and not only a salary"

What don't you like about working at SuperMedia?

"In general the industry is the problem, not the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need to develop and share a stronger vision for the future considering the challenges and opportunities."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Product Manager at CenturyLink
in Denver, CO

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"I am a product manager for the CPE business."

What do you like about working at CenturyLink?

"The Technology and Services we provide are the best in the market."

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

"Its a great company with competitive benefits and career development."

What don't you like about working at CenturyLink?

"The workload is very demanding and our staff needs to wear many hats"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would propose that the management staff take another look and workloads"

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 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Product Manager at Cole-Parmer
in Vernon Hills, IL

What do you like about working at Cole-Parmer?

"I liked the involvement with scientific products and applications using those products."

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

"they paid for my mba. they paid for my books they paid for parking"

What don't you like about working at Cole-Parmer?

"There were jerks who were allowed to take shots at me."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would innovate more. There were a lot of people just putting in time who didn't try to strategically advance the new products and services."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 2 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Product Manager at TruePosition
in Berwyn, PA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"OK"

What do you like about working at TruePosition?

"The pay and benefit ar good. The job is interesting."

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

"I don't have any. Just answer what they ask you."

What don't you like about working at TruePosition?

"The management have poor EQ. You have to be part of the old-boy-club to get ahead."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I have no suggestion. I just get my works done and get the pay checks."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Product Manager at ESPN
in New York City, NY
Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
in Bellevue, WA

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"The company has sufficient resources and a foundation for trial and error."

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

"Understand the culture and the job description. Make sure the candidate can adapt to the culture."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"The company is struggling with online service and having great difficulty in moving to a more agile process."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Really understand what it takes to change the culture for online service, and have strong solution architects for online service."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Product Manager at Cengage Learning
in San Juan, TX

What do you like about working at Cengage Learning?

"Cengage Learning provided me with great career advance opportunities and training. Besides, working in the Higher education industry was highly rewarding since you are providing people with tools to make their lives better."

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

"CL has a great opportunity to grow their digital solutions catalog and be a strong competitor but needs to develop a global strategy to better leverage the company assets worldwide."

What don't you like about working at Cengage Learning?

"Cengage Learning is a wonderful company. I cannot think of any aspect I dislike."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"CL has a great opportunity to grow their digital solutions catalong and be a strong competitor but needs to develop a global strategy to better leverage the company assests"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Product Manager at Technorati Media
in San Francisco, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Although impressed by smart employees, I found they lacked focus."

What do you like about working at Technorati Media?

"I liked a lot of the people there and I liked the view through the window."

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

"Make sure they know what they want to be when they grow up & make sure they're focused."

What don't you like about working at Technorati Media?

"I didn't like a lot of things, but it mostly had to do with my manager and his style (or lack thereof)."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management needs to get focused and be more transparent with the organization."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Senior Product Manager at Apple
in San Jose, CA

What do you like about working at Apple?

"I like the excellent exposure to product development and management, and Agile Way. True experience! Excellent industry domain exposure with a great exposure to cross functional teams."

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

"Prepare well with your basics and also the domain knowledge."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Recognize the people regularly, and appreciate the hard work put in."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 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
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