Coal Reviews

1.9

17% would recommend to a friend

(9 total reviews)

7% positive business outlook

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9 reviews
1.0
6 Oct 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Front line workers are bright and resilient, often left to overcompensate for the incompetency of upper level management, but the are the only thing that keeps the place out of the news.

Cons

6 chief executives, none of which have any idea how the business operates, just take the pay check and keep heads above water between their other roles and commitments outside the company. Barely qualified to do their jobs through lack of experience or general role based competencies and instead silo themselves off and justify all the bad feedback to "people who have left" or "things that just aren't the case anymore." 10 general managers, disempowered to actually make any decisions or drive needs of the teams, instead left to run their teams however they like in terms of micromanagement and bending the rules which creates divide between teams and pockets of favoritism. HR is a joke. Have a team of unqualified juniors who are left on the front line to mediate complaints and conflict with no official training, processes or support in place often then leaving the employees at a disadvantage to future opportunities due to 'black marks' on their record. Due to the culture issues at coal lsl there are a lot of complaints and none of them have been handled effectively.

2.0
28 Sept 2023

Smoke and mirrors

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Join if in need of the flexibilty a 9-day fortnight can bring, salary is not your main driver (tends to be on the lower side of market values) or not looking for career progression.

Cons

Presents itself as an established government entity, runs like a start-up. Expect ineffective & frequent reorganisations that bring no real change, lack of prioritisation and timely decision making from execs, constant shifting objectives and projects, tick-box employee initiatives, favoritism and inconsistent HR operations and decisions. Staff advice and expertise is often ignored with consultants brought in instead of trusting staff experience and their knowledge of the business. Lack of transparency and grueling company updates with no real susbtance to take the attention away from adressing actual challenges and issues. Would avoid.

1.0
3 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice office. Resilient and capable operations staff

Cons

Too much “strategy” - no useful change. Top heavy management who are forced to toe the line from an overbearing “control from the top” CEO. Force staff to be “profiled” which leads to them being pigeonholed. Even worse…some have been forced out due to their profiles. Any “leaders” left there have just figured out how to keep their head low. Constant restructure.

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