Stay away - Account Manager Quadra Group Employee Review

1.0
21 Sept 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You will be left alone.

Cons

All of this text is my opinion. This company has super cliquish management, everything is decided in secret with no regards to employee input. Suggestions for improvement are ignored. Every department works in silos and does not wish to help each other, especially between customer service and "procurement specialists". They actually go out of their way to make everyone's job harder; difficult to get inventory and maintain promised delivery dates to customers. Proactive communication between departments is non-existent, it’s all reactionary. Oftentimes you hear “that’s not my job, I’m not going out of my way to tell her anything”. The corporate leadership role for the customer service department has been vacant for more than 3 years as the two previous hires could not implement any changes and left the company within a year. There is no system to track customer satisfaction, for example, if orders are shipped on time and as ordered. Mistakes made (late deliveries, no inventory or stock out, etc…) are often not recorded in the ERP system for fear of retribution or alienation from the concerned people or departments. Therefore, nothing ever improves, the same mistakes are made repeatedly. Upper management constantly repeats the mantra that "we're family here" so that employees may feel scared to report unethical behavior about managers and colleagues. Upper management fools themselves into thinking that because they pay big money to belong to GPTW, that they are a good company. Most employees do not submit honest feedback in “anonymous” surveys for fear of retribution. Some employees are dating each other which would tend to create ethical dilemmas. Company outings/meetings are heavily focused on alcohol, you’re expected to drink with each other and customers. Many managers have no university education and inherited their roles for being with the company the longest; poor writing skills are the norm making the company look unprofessional. Many employees have been with the company for 20+ years and started as customer service reps who “earned” the role of sales. The company literally has a “dinosaur club” (a name they chose without realizing that it’s pejorative and technically illegal in the US to call a long-serving employee a dinosaur) to celebrate employees being with the company the longest. Nothing is discussed honestly, everyone lies to each other to maintain an illusion.

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5.0
11 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Quadra Chemicals is such a nice company who care for their employee , treats you as a family

Cons

each and every time company is doing something new for me i am not seeing any cons

4.0
31 Aug 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Quadra is a private, medium, family-owned business. I think they do a really good job of treating people with care, and focusing on "winning together" by having fun and valuing the contributions of each individual. They've been in business for 50 years, and never had a layoff. Many people have chosen Quadra as a career-company - often working there for decades, and maybe not even working anywhere else in their career.

Cons

People genuinely enjoy working here - so they don't leave. There's not much vertical mobility (high performers regularly wait 5-10 years for their "turn" to take a meaningful promotion), and the company is very conservative about diagonal movement (i.e. you either need to wait for your turn in line A, or you need to move laterally to line B and hope this line moves faster). This is even the case for people that have had relevant experience outside of the company before getting there - if you did underwater-basket weaving at another company, and you want to skip the basket-weaving step in the career progression at Quadra, that's a hard sell.

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