Excellent Products and Great People. Lacking Organizational Culture and Support for Innovation - District Sales Manager Sika Employee Review

4.0
22 Aug 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people and excellent benefits. Job security and stability is solid. Amazing products and company track record. Sense of pride and confidence in product offerings. Global footprint with strong support for internal mobility.

Cons

Organization culture is fractured resulting in silo effect from one department to the next. Company is not transparent and offers limited insight across departments. Feedback to management is rarely acknowledged and action on feedback is rarely implemented or supported. Conservative nature limits flexibility in the market and inhibits growth. Innovation and leadership potential of middle Managment is not supported. Compensation structure is short sighted and compensation increases are rarely given (not even cost of living adjustments). Commissions and incentives do not support or encourage growth because departments are incentivized in contradictory ways. Basic business and sales metrics are not in place or not enforced resulting in limited capacity to understand and improve key performer indicators.

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Sika Response
7y
Thank you for being part of the Sika team and for your comprehensive review of your work environment. We want to ensure that all of our employees are happy and that we operate competitively in all of our 101 countries. We will pass this information back to your local HR team for review.

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5.0
14 Jan 2026
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Pros

Great team, Great pay and benefits

Cons

Programs and plans need help.

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Sika Response
5mo
Thank you for your review of Sika, we are glad that you enjoyed our environment and team spirit and we wish you all the best in your future career.
1.0
20 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

New, relatively clean facility. Nice location. Facility is small and simple. Easy to learn the equipment.

Cons

Poor communication. No direction from day to day. You will be judged very quickly by colleagues and management will always side with them even when they are in the wrong. Maintenance boss has NO technical knowledge and that becomes evident and problematic very quickly because he can not recognize your strengths and will challenge your judgement, make you do things his way even though he doesnt know what hes doing. Your contributions will not be recognized or rewarded instead management will get hung up on little things that are of no real consequence. They are cheap and dont like to spend money on spare parts or tools. There are almost zero spare parts so whwn equipment breaks you could be waiting for days for the parts to arrive and in the meantime you get blamed for equipment failure when you had nothing to do with the failure, This is where the boss having no skillset comes into play in a negative way, lack of recognition of systematic troubleshooting steps. The money is below average but the facility is small and quite simplistic. The facility is run mostly by foreigners who display prejudice toward US born citizens. Sounds crazy but it is true.

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Sika Response
8h
We are very sorry to hear about your bad experience. We work hard to create a great environment for all of our employees and to ensure that company policies are clear and effective, globally. We always encourage employees to speak to their line manager or local HR if they have any concerns or are unhappy with any aspect of their work.
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