Fives reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(155 total reviews)
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Frédéric Sanchez

99% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Fives has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 155 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fives employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Industrie manufacturière industry (3.5 stars).

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155 reviews
5.0
Aug 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

There is always something new to help everybody to improve ourselves and help the company to be better. There is a great team to work with. The new management is making improvements to have good company and the HR group always have something fun to help have a united employee community and achieve a better work team.

Cons

All the cons can be opportunities to improve you just have to look it in the positive way.

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Fives Response
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We appreciate your feedback and pleased to learn that you enjoy your time at Fives! Our management team is dedicated to promoting an engaging, challenging, and exciting work environment. We strive to ensure Fives is a great organization to work for and an enjoyable place to work!
2.0
Dec 29, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Pay was good to start with. Mostly nice coworkers. The plant did offer some nice lunches and activities, such as walks or competitions.

Cons

No raises. Coworkers said they had gone 5+ years with no raise. Constant firings, layoffs and restructuring. Management is cut-throat. Often remote management. Often expects one person to do the work that many were doing. Most employees are very near retirement and very resistant to change or efficiency.

1.0
Oct 4, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay. That is how they lure you in. Good place to start for engineers without any experience aka fresh form college. You will not learn a lot but you will learn how bad company looks like so you can avoid it in future. If you are 55 and over this is a perfect place to be. Average employee age is 50+ and they heavily rely on part time work from retirees. At least 50% of engineering work is outsourced.

Cons

Can get fired at any moment. If you do not get fired on Friday, you are safe for a week. Engineering managers are without any integrity. HR decides who gets fired and who stays, managers have no saying on it. Employees are not friendly, act very nervous and not willing to help. Job is half done and machines are shipped to the customer without testing them first. Fixes are done at customer site by Fives personnel (China or Mexico). Company uses employee badges to track their whereabouts. If your time sheet does not match with their in/out system you get fired. Of course, at first day of work, they will tell you that gates are not for monitoring when employees come and leave but for your safety. Had hard time to find a job because I had Fives as an employer on my resume. Only after I removed it from resume was able to find a job. Maybe coincident maybe not. This was per friendly advice from one potential employer. After I found new job I just left Fives. My advice, avoid placing Fives as your employer on resume.

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