Harland Clarke Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Harland Clarke as an intern for less than a year

Pros – People are welcoming and always willing to help. Pay is also pretty good along with benefits.

Cons – There was no cons during the short time I was there.

Advice to Senior Management – none

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Harland Clarke full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great pay, good training,room for advancement

Cons – long hours during the busy season

Advice to Senior Management – none

Current Employee – been working at Harland Clarke full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great Benefits, given a lot of vacation time, very easy job. Also very hard to get fired unless you never show up to work (you also can get written up quite a few times before it being a real problem). If you come in, do your job, hit your numbers, don't have an opinion, and you will be fine. If you are single and dont have kids its not a bad job.

Cons – pay is not worth all you have to put up with, a majority of the people are not very smart (including management) can be very frustrating to work with. very low pay.. Work overtime A lot! They are swapping to 12 hour shifts and working every other weekend (including Sundays), this means if you are day shift you work 6:30am-6:45pm and if you are night shift you will work 6:30pm-6:45am... makes for very long days for very little pay. If you make a mistake you get written up very quickly. very very easy to get hurt on this job!! It is very hard to balance your work and life, specially if you are on night shift. I asked my supervisor one week if we will be working over the weekend or not, because I wanted to make plans with my family if we weren't I was told "dont know yet, you have no life out side these doors, this is your life".... not the greatest way to boost moral!

Advice to Senior Management – Care more about your employees. Stop letting the very old employees run the plant! They make the younger employees who can hit their numbers very angry, and are extremely rude to them...you will soon have people over 60 working there who are too old to move and will never hit your numbers! When a situation arises call in both employees to discuss the issue, don't just assume and place blame without taking to both parties.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Harland Clarke full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great fellow workers. Very intelligent and hard working. Bonus plan was never very good but has been eliminated. Health plan was okay. 401k plan was okay.

Cons – Management of this company is pretty bad in a rapidly declining industry. There is no innovation, just reaction. Way too many excellent employees have been laid off or fear to be soon. This was a nice company to work for when it was just Clarke American. Since merger with Harland, it has rapidly gone downhill.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't be in such a mad rush to eliminate employees, especially those who are good at what they do, dedicated and hard working. The company is becoming a sweat shop.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Harland Clarke full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Fair pay scale, good people, tuition reimbursement.

Cons – Business supports a declining market

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Harland Clarke full-time for more than a year

Pros – There was a good work environment with many exellent co-workers. They also offer a nice, quiet work space.

Cons – Company outlook as of 2013 is unstable to stay the least. Many key contributors have quit or been laid off due to what seems to be a quarterly company reorganization. Senior management is blatently two-faced, not forthcoming. This sentiment is consistent across employees throught the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Harland Clarke full-time for more than a year

Pros – Pretty good benefits, at times, the work was interesting. Pay was pretty good coming in. Some of the people I worked with were really sharp.

Cons – No particularly inspiring vision for a path out of the printed check world. Way too much process to get simple things done, Lack of focus on how to write good software, so things got to be a mess. Team dynamics had some real problems, but no leadership to solve issues. No raises while I was there after that initial nice salary.

Advice to Senior Management – Find a vision-not a fluffy 'vision statement', but a clear vision of how to make money going forward-and make sure everybody in the organization understands it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Harland Clarke full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – good pay, decent benefits. A few good 'seasoned' people are still there....riding it out until the company goes under or they can retire, whichever comes first.

Cons – Dying business that recently went from public to private ownership. Mgmt instructed to cut costs in order to survive. This includes moving a lot of the work to newly acquired company in India. They are in the process of selling all their real estate and moving remaining staff to leased spaces or having them work from home. hmmm. Wonder what the long term plan is?

Advice to Senior Management – Expect an upswing in resignations after mid March, bonus or not, and major fall-out when the economy turns around. Of course, this may be exactly what RP wants....I just feel bad for the folks that DON'T leave. I mean really, what is worse, getting layed off or having to work 60-70 hr per week with no relief in sight? The stress is unbearable. It's not like there's gonna be some prize at the end.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Harland Clarke full-time

Pros – Caring environment most of the time
Willing to promote from within
Acknowledgement for doing well - very concerned with employee recognition

Cons – They're more worried about the business than personal/family life a lot
Very strict about security - no cell phones out, no matter what
Hire strictly through contracting agencies for specialist positions
Sometimes hard to move up - really have to stay on management for well-deserved promotions

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Harland Clarke full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good benefits - Open door policy with all leadership - Opportunity to advance - Big on diversity with no "company" discrimination that I ever detected - Big on health and safety

Cons – Dying industry - mass consolidations and lay offs

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend