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      3.8

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (34 total reviews)

      Tony van Veen

      72% approve of CEO

      42% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Culture and values

      3.8

      Diversity and inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Senior management

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      Disc Makers has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 34 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Disc Makers employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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      34 reviews
      1.0
      13 Feb 2018

      Great place until the last 5 years or more.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      In a dying industry , They still do give a raise and a bonus if you hadn’t committed any company infractions or been written up for any reason.

      Cons

      The Company is top-heavy in management which suck up all the salaries leaving crumbs for the regular employees. Besides the upper level management, you have senior directors, directors and then managers of departments. I’m not real sure what a “senior director” does except collect a huge salary. Directors also seem very unnecessary as managers could report directly to the Ops Manager. Once again all collect very substantial salaries, and they continue too. Management does protect themselves and are rarely accountable for dept mistakes. If you work as an hourly employee , You can expect a weekly report card detailing all of your happy times sad times lateness and mistakes etc. all designed to affect your raise or bonus if you get one. You can also expect a low salary . This is bad for employee morale. If your in the print industry go to a union shop and double your pay. Management creates all sorts of busy work to justify their salaries. Upper management has Directors, Directors have managers and managers have team leaders and then you have the people that actually do the work. ,Daily meetings , graphs and charts, which do nothing but highlight the depts inefficiency or the mistakes that get repeated. In their endless quest to be a lean manufacturing company, the management seems clueless at times to their own fate . It is a dying industry.

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      Disc Makers Response
      8y
      I get it. You don't like management. However, let me address a few of the concerns you mention. We have a large staff of almost 400 working around the clock. They can't all report to a handful of VPs. We need management infrastructure to make sure our customers are satisfied, our staff gets the development opportunities they deserve, and our improvement projects get done. The busy work you refer to is the all-important task of communicating in every department what is working, what we can do better, and how to get there. I am proud of the management team we have, and of the modern management techniques we use to steer this business through choppy waters. Specific to your print industry comment, we pride ourselves on paying salaries competitive with the market and providing an extensive benefits package that includes PTO, health insurance, 401k and education assistance programs to name a few. In today's economy, if you regularly pay under market you can't attract or retain talent. We have several individuals in our print shop who left, and after some time came back because the grass was actually greener on the Disc Makers side. And we have a bunch more who came here after the print shops they worked at went out of business. With the addition of book publishing, our printing operations are growing and are one of the more exciting departments to work in. Tony van Veen, CEO
      5.0
      9 Oct 2017

      Back to Disc Makers!

      Silkscreen printer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Back to Disc Makers! I couldn't be more proud to return to Disc Makers. After leaving for 6 years to be at home for my adopted daughter I wanted to work with my hands and found a perfect fit in the CD plant, screen printing discs. I sold this product for nine years during my previous run with DM and now I'm getting a whole new appreciation for the technology, infrastructure and effort behind all these clients' hard work. And that's coming from someone who discussed the processes literally thousands of times with independent artists and corporate clients alike. Now I am actually part of the manufacture, and can see and feel the efforts to focus on total quality from the efficient and thoughtful workspaces to the unsurpassed skill and integrity of the people working right next to me in the CD plant. I chose to work third shift(yes they are still making CDs and DVDs around the clock!) because, as an artist, I'm finding it invaluable to use my time off to create and staying up late to perform on the weekends won't be an issue, I can stay up all night! There are so many talented professionals here, and not just the Sound Lab, Authoring House and Design Studio but also the sales and marketing teams. (Shout out to the engineering dept., HR, and all the other unsung heroes who keep the lights on and the production flowing) I had a hunch it would be a good fit for me but I didn't feel the pride and fulfillment until I got here. I work for an American manufacturer servicing audio/video professionals and self-publishers around the world and I could not be more proud. Jim McGrath CD Printer

      Cons

      I must say there are a lot of carbohydrates in the FREE bagels they provide EVERYDAY. No carbs in the free coffee though.

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      Disc Makers Response
      8y
      Welcome back! Great to have you. Tony van Veen, CEO
      5.0
      17 Aug 2017

      Excellent place to work.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Good mission. Good people. Good pay. Good benefits. Room for advancement. Casual and positive work environment.

      Cons

      Too much free coffee. Too many free bagels.

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      Disc Makers Response
      8y
      Sorry to disappoint, but for now I think we'll keep the coffee... And the bagels. Thanks for the review! Tony van Veen, CEO
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