Company with high growth potential as long as the shareholders stop acquiring new companies and selling the old ones - Sales Representative Kemira Employee Review

3.0
Oct 28, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Very friendly atmosphere; excellent work/family time balance; easy communication The company is one of the leading producers of polyacrylamide: good range of products with high potential

Cons

Top management has been buying and selling a large number of companies / business units over the past decade, having a trouble of properly integrating acquired ones: they acquire fixed assets but people and knowledge. Business units structures change every 6 months. Chaos with management and reporting. Very poor safety training No sales training that would be universal for the whole of the company. The company positions itself as a manufacturing rather than sales. International logistics out of USA is very poor.

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Cons

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2.0
Feb 20, 2026
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Pros

The processes are some of the best and well aligned that I have ever seen in any other company that I've been at. The business is straight forward, uncomplicated and easy to understand how it works. Even when issues arise, they are relatively easy to solve. SAP is a big part of what makes the processes here so straightforward.

Cons

The managers (specifically in supply chain) absolutely ruin the experience of working here. I'm not sure that real leaders (directors, VPs, etc) know how their smaller managers act towards everyone else. It's hard to believe the people in these manager roles were actually hand selected to manage other people when they probably can't even manage their own households. They only thing they're really good at doing is intimidating their subordinates, taking behind their back, and making them feel alienated.

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