This review focuses on the Defense part of Ceradyne, since Crucibles has recently been mis-managed out of existence.
Out of about 80 employees, 20 are managers. From what I can tell, these 20 managers exist to verbally abuse you when you don't conform to the alternative universe that exists in their 4 hour daily meetings.
This is hands down the most toxic work environment I've ever seen. The solution to problems is to always invent a new management position and throw an inexperienced person into that position. Then when things go wrong, these inexperienced managers just verbally abuse the other employees.
There are reams of paper work and a multi-million dollar SAP system installed to keep track of work orders, but these guys still wander the shop with clipboards trying to figure how where parts are.
Every idea that's vomited out during one of their 8 hour daily meetings is made the law of the land, while employees who have actually been doing the work for 20 years or more are ignored and marginalized.
Most of the people who actually do the work here possess a lot of technical skill, so I wouldn't be surprised to see mass exodus and high turn over rate as a result of abusive/excessive ""management"".
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