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2019-01-17 00:00:00
Growth OpportunityGood LeadersExciting IndustryTechnically Advanced
Work-life BalanceOutdated Management Practice
2019-01-13 00:00:00
Benefits, work/life balance, culture, employees, HR, upward mobility, management... great place to learn....list goes on. Truly a great company with minor complaints
Only 2 weeks vacation for the first 5 years- company shut down requires you to take 2-3 days vacation during Christmas- this shouldn’t come out of the employees 10 days (especially if you don’t celebrate Christian holidays)
2019-01-03 00:00:00
Excellent culture, a leadership that embraces innovation and is willing to take reasonable risks great benefits, and a great benefits package!
The business verticals are a bit "siloed", but this is generally the case with most growing medium/large sized companies.
2019-01-02 00:00:00
Staff department wide, from Executive Level to Admins are all friendly and helpful with any questions, feedback or concerns. There is a lot of cross collaboration between departments and everyone strives to work together for common goals. We have themed team events throughout the year, a great café and lots of outdoor areas to work independently.
None thus far from my time here.
2018-12-11 00:00:00
Great career experience, great product, great contractor network
Poor Management team, very political
2018-12-02 00:00:00
Dollar for dollar matching on 401K for up to 6% of salaryBonus scale is pretty great and is based on individual performance for the most partFree lunch fridays
Leadership at the top is very poor. Senior leaders don't know what good looks like for James Hardie. They are constantly changing directions every few months on what the business should look at and what projects should be the focus of the organization. Very frustrating. Also a lot of the mid level leaders (Directors) have no problem throwing their team members under the bus in order to prevent themselves from looking bad. They say that when you come in that the culture is very open and inviting to everyone's ideas. That was a load of crap. There is a ton of political bs and I felt like most of my team's ideas were always shutdown or poorly supported. The organization doesn't want to change how they do things but they love to complain that they need to find ways to do things better. They provide little support in doing so and expect you to just figure it out. Also leadership loves to plan last minute meetings/requests and expects you to do whatever is necessary in order to make it happen without any regards to how much time is needed to prep or fulfill the request. I can't tell you how many nights I worked very late on these such requests. Work life balance was a joke. I never had any idea of when I might be able to go home each day because of the chaos that is James Hardie. They did offer a few outings but I was never able to go to most of them because of the workload and demand of the job. I feel like James Hardie is a burn and turn kind of place. Avoid at all cost currently.
2018-11-25 00:00:00
Good benefits and free lunch Friday.
You become too valuable in your current position to be able to advance.
2018-11-20 00:00:00
There are a few positives at Hardie. First and foremost the pay and benefits are good. They also do team outings and free lunch.
Corporate management is a joke. Everything is 'flavor of the week' style management and the goals are constantly changing. Every new project is expected to have immediate results. Even if this means doing things that will cause problems in the future. Everything is about delivering the month's goals above all else. There is no long term planning and hourly headcount is always in flux due to poor planning for market conditions. The culture is abysmal with giant rifts between operations, plant finance, and corporate teams. Most managers are willing to do whatever it takes to save themselves and have no qualms about letting tenured employees go in order to find a scapegoat. Very little respect is given between teams and it is hard to have any meaningful or productive work conversations due to this. The common conception is that whoever is the loudest is also the "rightest".
2018-11-16 00:00:00
Opportunities to grow I’d you work hard enough and can strive in the culture.Smart and strategic company, teaches its employees a lot.
Can be challenging to overcome internal personalities.
2018-11-09 00:00:00
Not micromanaged with lots of training opportunities.
Impossible goals. Always moving faster and harder.
2018-11-07 00:00:00
Work-life balance, good people, values hard work.
Salary could be more competitive
2018-11-05 00:00:00
Great product, category leader, wonderful customer care
Direction to field tends to change too frequently
2018-11-04 00:00:00
Good Benefits, Free lunch Firdays
Management in the AP department is very unhealthy. The management actually enjoys putting their employees down. Nothing positive is ever said. They will work you to death. Then when reviews come around, they will find excuses to not give you an increase. They do not work together as a team and would rather put their department against each other. Nobody is allowed to help or teach another if needed. This has been taken to HR numerous times, but nothing is ever done. The turn over is really high and will remain there as long as the management is still there. I would definitely not recommend anyone for a position in this department. Keep looking.
2018-10-24 00:00:00
Support career goalsGood team
Management is difficult to understand
2018-10-14 00:00:00
Free water, lunch on Fridays
Long shifts, understaffed, constantly pushing to do more
2018-09-27 00:00:00
Interesting work, pay, benefits, work-life balance.
A little bit of perspective could help...I read pretty much all reviews here and every single negative review can be true. As somebody who's has worked over many years in different corporations, all I can say is that JH is no different. You can have a great department with a great manager, and the department in the next cubicles can be miserable.The tone comes from the top, and if the manager is lousy, the work environment will be lousy. If the manager is great, it will be an absolutely great place to work. It is the luck of the draw.Given that Hardie has over 1000 employess in the US (as far as I know), it would be an anomaly if every single manager was great! Nobody escapes the law of averages. In fact, Hardie makes an effort to mentor and promote from within, and sometimes unfortunately with questionable success.I'll say it again: if you're unlucky to have a lousy manager, it won't be pleasant. That's been the case though in all corporations I've been in. Hardie is no different.Should Hardie make an effort to weed out those managers? Sure they should, but that's easier said than done. There will be a lot of he said, she said.When you read reviews that say "bad life-work balance", "no promotions", this and that... I would say that while those are true, they definitely don't apply across the entire organization.It's easy and understandable for somebody who had a negative experience to criticize the entire organization, but keep in mind that you are reading only a slice of the truth. There are people who've been here a long time, are good at what they are doing and retire from here.As I said, with a good manager you won't be looking for a new job.================================================Next con is of a higher level. Once you get to a certain position, there can be higher decisions on directions and strategies that make you scratch your head. What can you do at that point? Truth is, not much... HR can't help with that. Go to the GMT? Maybe, but it's not so easy. Who will they believe, you or your boss?Even if you can argue successfully your position, how will you work with your manager, when you went over him/her and possibly made him/her look at least partly bad? At that point, maybe it's just better to look for a new job.This, however, is also not a situation unique to Hardie, it's part of being in the corporate world. Situations that can be easily resolved in a small company become often insurmountable obstacles in a corporation. That's the nature of the corporate beast. Hardie likes to see itself as this nimble organization, but it ain't. No corporation is.
2018-09-27 00:00:00
Every company I entered was not there
I am just doing this to join the website.
2018-09-14 00:00:00
Passionate and bold leadership, strong commitment to leveraging technology to improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.
It’s hard to tame so many aspirations at once, and resulting course corrections can be painful.
2018-08-30 00:00:00
Good benefits, very interested in disruptive growth, tries to be different from the rest of its industry
Shifting priorities ("windshield wiper"), frequent org changes, unwilling to take the time to plan and set up for future success
2018-08-30 00:00:00
Honestly I found a few good people but that is about it
Very poor career mappingLittle to know development if you are in a senior roleOld boys clubGender bias unless you take on EA responsibilities... even in senior rolesHR will not action any issuesLots of issues in meetings with people getting stuck on specific word choices rather than concepts and ideasJH Values are not actually practicedNo mentorshipShark environment - take down someone to get aheadBurnout culture
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