Fender Musical Instruments reviews about "manager"

Pay / benefits / managers and directors gate keep. Toxic leadership that knows nothing about their customers.

Upper Level Management a mess now. Large layoff recently. Happy I left, but looking to come out of retirement at Yamaha.

They DO NOT care about their employees. People are underpaid and they write it off as having a “cool job.” There is no growth. They’ll most likely put someone younger or inexperienced over you and make your life miserable. They are consistently doing layoffs so your job is never safe. Upper management is awful and only cares about bringing home their bag of money and will screw you over while doing it. Their entire upper manager mgmt team is white males and everything they do is insanely white male centric. They hired a ton of diverse employees and then laid them all off from the marketing and AR teams. Women get no respect unless you’re a woman who hates other women at the company. Be prepared to have your work stollen by upper mgmt, a really low raise (or no raise at all), and then to be let go… again seems cool but this place is AWFUL. OH and their severance is really bad so don’t except to make a lot of money here… unless ofc your a white male in upper mgmt.

Management asks for too much a lot of the time and I saw upped management go off or yell at other managers from time to time.

-Raises are virtually nonnegotiable. Managers seem to have little to no influence over your raise. Expect cost-of-living or less unless you move up in position. You'll get excuses like "it's just not in the budget this year" even though they hit record-shattering profits that year. That money is going somewhere just, not to you because you are not a priority. -Cringeworthy "woke" messaging on display monitors and laced within company emails.

Salary is low, benefits are not great, vacation time is very low, and parental leave is short. There are no bonuses for managers, and no incentive for hourly people either to perform, annual increases are extremely low if any..

management is very oppressive and depending on who your manager is, you will get a positive work life balance or hell on earth.

C- suite in digital seemed to make unethical decisions in the daily. Working here was like high school where gossip ran amuck and managers showed clear favoritism