Flowserve reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(1,555 total reviews)
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Scott Rowe

85% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Flowserve has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,555 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Flowserve 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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2K reviews
4.0
Jun 27, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Flowserve is a large corporation that has the feel of many smaller companies making up a whole. There's no way to describe how it works other than as a number of smaller siloed facilities that are all part of Flowserve. The benefit to this is that it's easy to be a big fish in a small pond, however, it can be quite easy to be relegated to a backward facility and have very little room for advancement. It is imperative to hook into an appropriate social network at the company in order to meet the right people and prepare for advancement.

Cons

There are some downsides at working here, as well - it is very easy to fall through the cracks and not have the ability to move into a new position. Most of the facilities are located in very remote, third or fourth tier cities (think Cookeville, TN, Sulphur Springs, TX, and so on), and just are not placed many people who are not from the area want to work.

3.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Within pockets of Flowserve there are GREAT supervisors. There are wonderful opportunities to excel and to learn a lot of business skills. FPD, or the Pumps division is probably the very best area to work in as it will provide the best opportunities to grow and the most opportunities to move within the organization. Of all the divisions, the leadership in FPD is the strongest and most experienced. Tom Ferguson, the president of FPD has come up through the ranks, even being the president of FSD at one point, and knows how to treat his people. FCD, however, is quite fragmented and is rowing in four different directions, beware. FSD is the golden child, being small and nimble.

Cons

There are an incredible amount of incapable leaders at Flowserve. Some are even executives that have even their bosses fooled.

2.0
May 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of good people working here.

Cons

Outsourcing too much design work to India and running with too little design and engineering staff in Kalamazoo. Quality is really suffering at the expense of speed. Nexus is a really poor PLM system. It has hurt productivity significantly and caused employees immense frustration.

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