No growth from within - Anonymous employee Sunstar Group Employee Review

Been here for multiple years, minimal (like 2) promotions from within. This is really a dreadful place. Lots of new employees in Sales, Marketing, Regulatory and Engineering. Would have liked to have been a fly on the wall in those interviews. Many of the people hired are completely unqualified for their positions and those that are qualified, are not being promoted. There are two long-time employees that consistently make it hard to get anything done. They have 20+ years at the company and hold their power closely and will negate or blow you off. The product management system/sales/inventory system is from the 1980s and is DOS based. It does not interface with the brand new shipping system without tons of manual work between the two systems. IT is behind the times dramatically. No policy for work from home. Individual Managers allow or disallow, but everyone is afraid HR will find out. People spill stuff on the relatively new carpet, but don't tell building maintenance, because they will be reported to HR for spilling. Despite relatively new facilities, they are filthy and ill maintained, unless Management from Japan is coming then everything is spruced up. Also, many packaging functions manual and operations shuts down when Japan comes so that Japan won't find out that their US operations still have manual functions. Best seller went on back order because production stopped for 2 week Japan visit.