Good People... - Anonymous employee Quad Employee Review

3.0
16 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Most people are great, willing to help and are friendly - you can literally reach out to anyone and they will usually do their best to help you. The history of company is extremely rich and makes people work hard. The management team is doing what they can do combat a struggling, shrinking print industry by investing in growing areas and to invest energy into new ideas.

Cons

Pay is terrible - everyone is paid terribly and no one gets raises (except executive team) Many of the long time employees don't see a way out even though they are unhappy and they drag down everyone around them. Especially those employees who like to reminisce about the "good ole days" back when Harry was around - failing to realize that if mergers and acquisitions didn't occur, that they wouldn't have a job. Period. The business is slow to adopt change and it can be frustrating for young enthusiastic employees to wait for said changes. Old employees get worried about changes even though it will make their jobs easier. Managers don't usually spend enough time with their employees and understand their career goals - I saw a lot of good talent leave because they were being passed up for positions they wanted, but managers who didn't know it or managers who refused to move people because they knew they wouldn't be able to replace them - in a selfish move. The company keeps investing money in different areas, but most of the time, has an ill conceived plan of how there will be synergy and leads to duplication of work, efforts, and loss of money. Many people work 50+ hour weeks in the office because their departments are understaffed & management expectations are unrealistic.

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