AdvanSix Reviews

2.6

35% would recommend to a friend

(150 total reviews)
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Erin N. Kane

26% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

AdvanSix has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 150 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The AdvanSix employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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150 reviews
1.0
28 Jul 2021

Avoid

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Pros

There are no pros here that other chemical companies don't have. Salary and benefit are standard for the industry and nothing special.

Cons

This used to be a pretty good place to work. Then we hired a chief operating officer from Exxon who came in and cut jobs and messed up the organization during the start of COVID. All of the process and production engineers in the company, and low/middle management had to apply and interview for their own jobs and each other's jobs! I couldn't sleep for months throughout this process. Engineers have been quitting left and right ever since explicitly due to that "reorganization", which means a lot of backfilling. They allowed many employees to work from home until August 2020 and then brought them back into the office for the "team environment". The team environment where we'll all in our offices with the doors shut and no in person meetings? When COVID spiked in colder weather and over the holidays we kept full staffing in the offices, and surprise, a ton of us got COVID. It was very clear that it was spreading at work because clusters of cases would pop up in the same buildings and work groups. The latest company whitewashing message is to claim that "there were no cases of onsite transmission". They base that lie on the fact that they did NO contact tracing! You can't identify transmission at work if you don't look for it. All of this made it clear that this company DOES DO NOT CARE ABOUT EMPLOYEE'S LIVES. They only care about stock price. This is dehumanizing for those of us who got COVID at work and physically and mentally suffered needlessly.

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Thank you for sharing your feedback on our organization. We have robust COVID protocols in place for all known cases and would like to understand your specific situation, please reach out to us at: staffing@advansix.com.
1.0
17 Oct 2022

Avoid At All Costs

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Pros

Decent starting salary. Hard working colleagues. Nothing else at all.

Cons

AdvanSix is a rudderless rundown ship. The facilities are a dump. There are constant safety concerns and injuries. Huge amounts of turnover and constant organizational changes and layoffs. Zero job security and no opportunities to advance. Complete dead end.

2.0
23 Mar 2022

Greedy Corporate

Recommend
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Pros

A company with three unique plants that gives a lot of experience and exposure in the chemical intermediates industry.

Cons

When looking through the reviews you notice some of them are good and a lot of them are bad. The good ones come from places like accounting, finance, and HR. The bad ones are mostly coming from the engineers and operators. AdvanSix has an incredibly high turnover rate on these essential personnel which corporate has disregarded as “normal turnover”, and now it is one of the most dangerous plants in the area run by 20 years olds replacing engineers that leave with 5+ years of experience (the 20 year olds are cheaper). The CEO was recently asked what moves will be made in regards to the high turnover, which was played off as an opportunity for movement. In reality, its been an opportunity for the engineers and operators to double up on work with no compensation. If AdvanSix made tin cans, this would be okay. The company is one process disaster away from a complete shutdown and the knowledgable people making the product safely are leaving due to poor pay (compensation is so bad that promotions barely beat inflation, and in normal years you are guaranteed to be below inflation), poor hours, and no acknowledgement from management that they have done a good job increasing stock price by 800% in the last year. No matter what your job function is, consider this when you apply there: if they lose their production personnel and cant make a product, the company wont be generating money. Not sure why the leadership team is willing to risk everything to save a few extra dollars and stuff it into their pockets.

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