Graco Reviews

Management is a revolving door. Constant restructuring, shuffling of roles, slashing budgets, and rotating divisional leadership made it very difficult to execute on long-term initiatives. Incompetent managers are allowed to stay in their roles for way too long. In addition, there is a complete lack of marketing expertise at the Senior Leadership level, and this has allowed for poor marketing and digital leaders at every level. Marketing teams are mostly lead by engineers, and that is not a recipe for success; morale suffers and talented marketers always eventually leave. Graco has antiquated WFH policies, little trust in employees, and their lack of forward-thinking will make it very difficult to attract top talent. They are already seeing this in many of the technical/digital roles they are trying to fill. Graco's short-sighted "squeeze blood from a stone" mentality is going to cause significant talent gaps in the future, if it hasn't already.

Machinists are over paid and engineers are under paid. Machinists are never let go and engineers run the risk of being fired from even the littlest things depending on who you report too. We had a machinist break a 5 figure piece of a machine and not even get in trouble. Engineers end up working 50-60+ hours and get paid for 40. Machinists work 40-60 and get paid OT. Engineers have more room to grow but you have to work non stop to be able to move up in the company.