Kemira reviews

The pay is not competitive. The management chain, starting at the CEO all the way to local managers, may have enough vision to see their nose. The tier for pay is horrible. There is over $10 difference per hour between the top and bottom. The company will lay off, recall, and lay you off two weeks later starting that it is too slow to keep you. However, it's too busy to let you take PTO.

Company is an amalgamation of various poorly-connected business units, some of which have dubious future and profitability. The company is Finnish, which means squishy sense of leadership and direction. Scandinavians prefer to have roundtable talks, with little in the way of decisions. The company also has a substantive German element, which is not happy to be subservient to anyone else on earth, and delights in telling other global business units how to do things. The American HQ in Atlanta (depending on which business unit one asks) goes through cycles of centralization and decentralization, but that is company-wide. For example, centralized shared services centers were built in Barcelona and Holland to handle all Euro business, but just two years later closed down and laid off everyone so a new central hub could be built in Poland with cheaper labor.