Carestream Health reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(564 total reviews)
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Todd Clegg

48% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Carestream Health has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 564 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Carestream Health employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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564 reviews
1.0
Jan 14, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Many passionate and knowledgeable associates left. Good pay/benefits package.

Cons

Carestream is another perfect example of a failed transformation of business. This is like Kodak all over again. Most of the focus of the senior team still sits in the dying film business that exceeds their goals each year as they are able to negotiate low targets. This leads to great bonuses for the few dictators involved in this business. The CEO talks in his quarterly town-hall meetings mostly about the film business rather than the digital businesses which is a clear sign of his priorities. He clearly failed to implement any strategies that allow us to differentiate ourselves from the big players in the medical imaging industry which leads to poor results in the digital businesses. We also experience a mass-exodus of Senior Executives and other talent as they either get fired because they challenge the CEO or leave because they found a company with better opportunities and especially company values. The CEO sits most of his time in his corner office worrying about himself rather than leading from the front and through people. It is really sad to see this company going down as it would have had so much potential.

1.0
May 22, 2014

Iceberg now directly ahead!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company still has a good competitive product range with good staff, mainly at lower level which seems to be keeping the company afloat.

Cons

This is a company that does not reward the individual no matter how much effort they put in. Come your P+D you will find your grading totally fixed. If you have a company car, you will end up paying towards the leasing costs, even though the standard car quality and engine size goes down year by year, which is also an additional cost for the employee even if you need a like for like replacement come the renewal. Bullying now is on the increase, if you don’t agree with new changes of company policies, it becomes mandatory anyway and threats of your contract of employment being changed if you don’t sign. No adequate structure in place to instruct middle management of a true vision, lots of middle managers coming up with ideas that are poorly thought out and counterproductive, which only has a negative effect on employees morale; it’s like the blind leading the blind.

2.0
Jan 28, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1) Pay is good comparable to other local companies. Benefits were good, but are being progressively stripped. 2) There is a small collective of high-performers that continue to do all that is necessary to drive the business and do the right thing. 3) (As a salaried employee) So as long as you are willing to regularly in excess of a 60 hour work week, you have the flexibility to construct/manage your work day.

Cons

1) Lack of transformative vision to save what's left of the business. 2) Change-driving projects, particularly in IT, rarely come to fruition due to 'Death by Analysis' by its principals. 3) Select R&D leadership is vacant and self-serving, with lack of innovative thought and positional insecurities that cause high-performers to exit the company. 4) There is a considerable gender and political pay gap, the correction of which may happen on a 1:1 basis, rather than based on performance merit. Personal observation was a peer doing similar work in an adjacent organization making in excess of $40k/yr more. There isn't pay-balancing/consistency, which sh/could be driven by standardization/harmonization of HR pay practices. 5) If you're determined and driven, expect to be 'worked to death' to make up for non-engaged employees, management that is focused intently on their bonuses (micromgt) and, notably, other good people/high-performers leaving the company. Our program and project managers for a major initiative left within a week of one another last year, and the project drags on because there is no leadership/passion behind it.

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