GCP Applied Technologies Reviews

For the first few weeks, you will learn a lot and you will eagerly complete every task at hand, working as hard as you can to complete them...then you realize most are pointless and you’re working harder not smarter. There’s no direction or clear path. It doesn’t matter how hard you work, it’s never enough. You try your hardest by putting in 70-80 hour work weeks only to be given more work and be told weekends are MANDATORY. There is a lot of talk about flexible work environment and at times it is true. You can work 10 of the 70-80 hours from the comfort of your home. There is also a lot of talk about opportunities in other departments but when it comes down to it, management, knowing how difficult it would be to replace you, block the process and give you no option but to leave. It’s bittersweet because some departments are well run and give you the illusion that perhaps it’s going to get better but the reality is anything related to accounting or finance will never change (or hasn’t since the company went public) and unless you’re willing to live and breathe GCP, the never ending unnecessary projects will consume your life. As others mentioned it makes it that much worse when your bonuses are cut yet you have more consultants than employees (because of the high turnover) who get paid outrageous hourly rates (unlike salary employees)...it is very telling when the consultants have been in the company for longer than any of the employees in that department.

I wish I could give negative stars. No culture or organization values. The company has had 3 CEOs in 3 years. It’s the same song and dance. They pay over $5M to bring in a consulting group, lay a bunch of people off, then the consultants recommend what most of the employees have been asking for for years. None of the important recommendations get implemented, even by the consultants, or if they do it’s half hearted at best. I thought the original CEO was rough, but the new one is the worst I have ever seen. He was brought in after a board takeover and has no previous experience in this role. He is simply a puppet with no original ideas of his own. He is a terrible communicator and never bothered to meet anyone, understand the organization, or lead. He simply hid in Atlanta, laid everyone off, and is now relocating the entire company to his home. Real nice guy. Operations has been stripped bare. People are routinely doing 4 or 5 jobs and the plants are continually understaffed, underfunded, and losing key talent left and right. There is nobody left in this company that understands the business or any of the markets or products. At best it gets sold, and at worst it continues to lose market share and eventually it will fold. It’s sad because this was a great company once. Goes to show what can happen when you enter into the corporate takeover carousel.