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California Innovations

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California Innovations Reviews

3.7

75% would recommend to a friend

(19 total reviews)

65% positive business outlook

California Innovations has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 19 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The California Innovations employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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19 reviews
5.0
19 Jun 2018

Cost Analyst

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

good work environment, colleagues are friendly

Cons

narrow career advancement, not much innovations

1.0
2 Apr 2021

Work here if you don't value yourself.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The location is next to Yorkdale Mall. Newer employees are very nice.

Cons

Low pay. They undervalue your work. Performance is based on your seniority. There are no leaders. People in management or high position are basically just workers who have been there a long time. They get the work and outsource it. That's their real job. There is little to no incentive to be motivated at work as they never promote or recognize your work. They only nitpick little mistakes. They think you are a replaceable commodity, not a person. I worked for this company for a long time and took on more work each year as people left. This work is normally above my pay grade (the person who left is higher level than me). Instead of giving me some kind of appreciation for covering the work each time, they would rehire a person above me and reassign me another job. You would think they would want to promote within or develop their workers. I can't leave for my own reasons. They don't help you with development. They want you to do as you are told and never learn too much to replace them. They are so backwards in their work. Senior management never learns about new technology, new methods, new techniques. They don't adapt to the times. Everything is old school. If HR is not assertive about who can be hired, they will only hire people senior management think they can "control". They want people that just listen and don't think for themselves. They want people who cannot leave for a better job outside. They want people who won't speak up about injustice.

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California Innovations Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback about your experience at California Innovations. We are sorry to hear that your expectations were not met in the areas you have described. We value the feedback of our employees as we strive to create and sustain a positive employee experience. We take all feedback seriously and encourage you to bring this forward to Human Resources so we can better understand and evaluate any necessary changes and improvements that may need to be made. We truly appreciate your feedback.
5.0
9 Dec 2016

Dir. Bus. Analysis & Dev.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Friendly intelligent staff, laughter, creativity

Cons

Hours can be long. Superiors can be quite demanding

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