Quad/Tech Reviews

2.5

31% would recommend to a friend

(31 total reviews)

Karl Fritchen

36% approve of CEO

19% positive business outlook

Quad/Tech has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 31 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Quad/Tech employee rating is 28% below average for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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31 reviews
1.0
18 Nov 2015

Get out before you turn 40!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits package is okay, but no longer special. If you're new to the company, you will be given the reins when you walk in the door. But after the first year, you become the problem. Sussex (headquarters) is a nice town.

Cons

Layoffs are very frequent. Every holiday season you get to wonder if you'll have a job next week. The industry is in a decade-long recession, and QuadTech compounds the problem with unbelievably bad leadership. The creative and innovative people who once made it great have either been moved out or put on a shelf. Age discrimination starts in your 40s. Management flails away at new strategies every year, with no results. They bounce between barely profitable and losing money year after year. The profitable years are because they slash staff and don't give out raises. In late 2014, it became the most political and scheming place to work I've ever witnessed. New managers are brought in, work their evil, then move to another company in a year or three, leaving everyone else to hold the bag. Over and over and over.

2.0
15 Dec 2015

Technician

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Was a great place to stimulate a creative and caring culture. No idea was a bad idea. You respected your co-workers and they respected you. If you didn't screw up, you weren't trying hard enough. You felt like an owner and had some input on things that were going on.until the mother company went Public.

Cons

The mother company, Quad/Graphics went public. Quad/Graphics bought World Color and Vertis to enlarge their customer base. They inherited a customer base, but also inherited run down buildings with run down presses and workers with terrible work ethics. This was a recipe for disaster. The once thriving company is starting to nosedive and laying people off.

1.0
3 Jan 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Obtaining firsthand knowledge on how a truly dysfunctional and mismanaged company operates. However the company does offer a decent benefit package.

Cons

The problems with Quad Tech all share the same common denominator that would be Karl Fritchen. Since taking the helm the facts of his legacy are: 1) More than half of the workforce has been laid off. 2) Quad Tech’s product lines have been reduced to only Press Controls. 3) The Company has never posted a profit during his tenure. 4) The Company has never broken even during his tenure. 5) The Company has not launched any new products only made changes to existing products and labeling them as new. 6) The closing of Quad Tech divisions in Europe and Asia. His biggest drawback is his enormous ego. He has surrounded himself with a group VP’s and Directors that tell him what he wants to hear in order for their survival. He is fodder for Consultants that continue to feed his ego and convince him to stay the course. This is the course that has led to shrinking market share and a dwindling customer base. Very sad to see people that have given 10, 20, 30 years of their lives to what used to be a great Company that has been destroyed by this man.

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