Hutchinson reviews

There is no meaningful advancement here if you are ambitious. Talented people are pigeonholed into jobs which are beneath their abilities - and are forced to report to people who have inferior skills and knowledge. Top management roles are given to politicians and yes-men; who have think they know more than they really do. The person who France appointed as "CEO" of the US antivibration divisions is a big-mouth, condescending, narcissist - an accountant who fancies himself as a business "guru" but is an adolescent "wannabe." He used to show up in management meetings with his laptop - which had stickers all over it like "Navy Seal," and "Special Forces" nonsense - when in fact he was French and never served in any military. Having actually been a REAL Navy veteran myself - I wanted to shove that computer so far up that phony's behind - he'd need surgery to get it out. The guy was a joke and it remains a mystery how a child like that could have been appointed to such a high position. Six months after I left I was asked to return to the company -- I declined.

The French Parent Company is a large conglomerate. The French management team have no idea how to run a large conglomerate. Over the past 10 years, they have "grown through acquisition" - however the parent company team has absolutely no clue about how to conduct an effective post-merger integration of subsidiary companies. As a consequence, they have "experimented" - at some times attempting to fully integrate their automotive, aerospace, defense, and diverse industrial groups under one management - (generally selecting the worst most inept personality types to lead these efforts), only to fail and then try to "re-divest" those divisions - then placing newly recruited incompetents to run those groups. In spite of having 20 years experience in acquiring and running US divisions - the French management team still has no clue about US corporate culture, or what it takes to be truly successful in the US market. It's no wonder that a country which elects a twerp like Macron for their president, continually appoints idiots to run their corporations' US divisions. These following comments are in regard to all of Hutchinson's US business units, not only Aerospace in Burbank: Corporate senior management in France, goes to great lengths in employing its formidable resources and talents to attract and recruit division Sr. Managers for their US business units - who are the most inept and least competent people they can possibly find. As strange as this may seem - there is clearly a well-defined strategy behind this, it's merely a mystery as to what exactly this strategy can be. This has been a consistent pattern for the past 15 years. If you lack maturity, are devoid of emotional intelligence, have little or no hands-on experience in the aerospace, defense, or other industrial sectors in which the Barry Controls divisions are engaged - you will very likely land the top general management or division president role at one of those business units - as the parent company management in France seems to recruit - always from outside of the company - the most incompetent people they can find for these positions. The parent company corporate officers have demonstrated a consistent talent for marginalizing their best and most talented incumbent employees and middle-managers - by forcing them into positions which are always subordinated to their inferiors, in order to deliberately humiliate, demotivate, and diminish those persons of real talent, while at the same time, elevating to positions of top management - idiots, narcissists, defectives, and moral degenerates of all stripes. If you value yourself and your career, don't come to work for this company. The pay offered upon joining the company is sometimes slightly better than average - but that is then certain to stagnate. For anyone with a genuine results oriented work-ethic - your ambition will be unappreciated, your efforts unrewarded, and your achievements unrequited. If you have talent - this is a dead-end job, for you will be pigeonholed for years into the same role for which you joined the company - perhaps with some successive changes to "title" and increased work-load / responsibility - but with no meaningful organizational promotion - and no meaningful financial rewards. If you aspire to join the company expecting to work hard, learn the business, deliver "the goods," and then be rewarded with a track to a top-management role -- seek elsewhere. You will not only find only disappointment, but a career derailing experience. If you have talent - joining Hutchinson is career suicide. On the other-hand, if you are a job-hopping politician with few real management skills, adept at evading responsibility, taking credit for the positive work of others, assigning blame for your blunders to convenient scapegoats, can pass-off your mail-order weekend MBA degree as a legitimate credential to the unwitting French managers -- then you will be highly valued by the French management team, and can expect to be recruited for the top job in one of their many US divisions. If you are a malignant narcissist, abusive control freak, or other type of moral degenerate - you are particularly well-qualified for a top division management role. These are the character-types who are most valued and rewarded by France's top management hiring committee. If you want a place to hide - this is a fine place to work. If you want a career - you're better off trying to find a real business that rewards - rather than punishes - real talent.