Alene Candles Reviews

1.8

16% would recommend to a friend

(147 total reviews)

Raj Chary

12% approve of CEO

16% positive business outlook

Alene Candles has an employee rating of 1.8 out of 5 stars, based on 147 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a poor working experience there. The Alene Candles employee rating is 48% below average for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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147 reviews
1.0
2 Jul 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I liked some of my former coworkers. I learned what is to work for a horrible company. They are building a lot in NA, you can easily avoid this place.

Cons

Operations have no clue what they are doing and they blame us. Leads let people take defective candles and wax back home when this was allegedly forbidden, which shows favoritism. No TH C testing, you can smell the burned grass smell in addition to the candle because how much ppl partake during business hours. Inconsisrent discipline. One personn gets their hand slapped for something while another gets fired. New Hampshire is a mess and we have to pick up the slack for them. They spend millions of dollars on machines that never worked to then get rid of them, yet they can't seem to give better bonuses or benefits. Safety is an absolute joke. If you get hurt, go straight to HR, unless you want to just receive an are you ok and a gift card. They speak a lot about the Alene way. If the Alene way is making most people regret working for them, chaos, ineffective leadership, and a dead end in your career, seek no further. Turnover for that company looks like a concert turnstyle, they are always firing, laying off, or losing people because of how crazy it is. You will hate EVERY single minute of it.

1.0
30 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None, that place is an absolute mess.

Cons

They don't test for rec use, so between the smell of the candles and the smell of rec sometimes working there is horrible. They are always showing favoriteism. Some people make more money than others in the same role, and they arbitrarily give raises to people in the in crowd. I know of at least 3 peoplen that got money with no extra work doing the same job as everyone else. Manufactiring, engineering, and maintenance are always talking bad of each other. Also, they talk a great game on safety, but allowing ppl to go in feeling nice, or ppl going out on a smoke break coming back feeling nice and no one doing anything about it tells a very different story.Manahement is clicquey and gossipy. I didn't care about leasership yapping to us that Everest was a waste of money and NH needed to shutdown or that the people representing the customer are incompetent or so. I was there to do my job, every day felt like a soap opera.

1.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nothing pros except no test for recreational use. So I can use during lunchtime and breaks.

Cons

Management is the worst, they keep on changing priorities left and right. Maintenance is treated by operations like 2nd clas citizens. Operations is constantly breakiing machines and blaming maintenance. I have fixed the mengibar 1837988 times and they keep on messing the same thing saying we don't fix anything. The plant manager in this building has no idea what he is doing. At first he is a nice guy, and whenever the powets above pressure him, he comes in threatening to fire people. People in the other building take defective candles home, but we can only take 2 or 3 wall flowers before ppl get annoyed. Either they don't plan for busy season or they have no idea on how to so the work because there hasn't been a year where busy season is the worst. They spend money on parties and big management bonuses (15%-20%), but they keep on laying off people every year. All of the investment goes to NH, which doesn't make any money, and hasn't made any money in years and our plants that do make money (and us who make money for you) are treated like second class citizens in salary, benefits, and respect. Safety here is a joke. People give gift cards to avoid recordables. Nothing sits well here. They keep on pushing on line 302 and over the years it has yet to do what's expected, which results in plant manager here losing his mind on us and blaming maintenance for everything when the operators are better handling a lego instead of production equipment. C suite top guy is a micromanager.

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