Gentex Corporation Employer Reviews

GENTEX was voted as the best manufacturing company's in Michigan to work for and it truly is. The work there is clean, fast paced, very light duty, and the people you work with are fun, nice and are willing to help you out with your work if you are struggling. The pay rate is a little above average and the benefits and compensation are great. They offer – more... full medical and dental insurance and every employee gets quarterly bonuses. – less

It was a factory, but was nice to have air conditioning in the summer.

Working at Gentex was not by any means the greatest job around but it was also nothing to complain about. They keep their facilities clean and air controlled. The parts that they make are not hard or complicated like some factory jobs can be. You have to do you usual standing, lifting, and twisting. There is room for advancement but is hard to get your – more... foot in the door for a new position. It's a job for someone who just wants to go to work, do their job and collect a pay check. The pay is very reasonable to start. The people are friendly and easy to work with. They have many areas to work in. – less

Management was supportive and an all around good company. They will treat you well as long as you do what is asked of you. I personally did not manufacturing work so wasn't for me. However, very wonderful place to work

A- started at 10pm,the boss handed out orders,do your quota (which was hard for me b/c I am a perfectionist, I take pride in my work) clean up, never stand around. B- I learned that doing my job right, (1) would save a life. (2) do the job right the first time.C- you have your good days & you have your bad days. D- never trust your co-workers. E- turning – more... off the trouble makers. F- knowing I did my best. – less

Being able to enjoy what i was doing and get the job the done and good teamwork.

 Produced circuit boards and showed initiative for improvement. Promoted into materials handling leader. Generated a color coding system so all material logistics could be easily tracked and reported.
 Assigned quality control projects to improve efficiency. Changed product handling so employees had less downtime from manufacturing floor to warehouse

Enjoyed working with this company good management awesome co-workers.

Ran day to day operations on a production line. Supervised 6 employees and worked to reduce downtime and increase quality. Worked closely with management and engineers to make improvements to the line. Hardest part of the job was the hours worked meant getting home late or getting up very early.

No respect for skilled trades. Will hire talent to watch and copy then discard.

Responsible for fabricating new flight helmets for the Fire Department.

I hired on at Gentex in 2008 and was ecstatic to find that companies like this still existed. Family values, unpretentious management, ownership mentality, etc. were all being preached as the core foundations. At the time, it was an exciting place to work with a healthy R&D department, and seamless integration into production engineering that helped – more... launch some of the most successful products the company ever produced.

Enter the "new management". I am not sure what the motivation behind the changes were, but they have brought nothing but politics, intimidation and all core values have been thrown out the door. In the last 2 years I worked there, myself and everyone else there spent more time watching their back and worrying about angering the wrong people for fear of losing their jobs. The atmosphere went to a complete loss of communication and therefore lack of creativity.

The management structure is in a complete state of flux with no growth path, training programs or mentorship. They promote young engineers into management with no prior management experience. It is sold to the CEO by lies and deceit so he will approve. If you succeed, you will survive. If you fail, you will not be given an alternative career path but rather removed. – less

Gentex is a great company to work for. I have learned many things and gained much experience on concepts of topics such as Toyota Production System (TPS), standardized work, lean manufactering, cost-benefit Analysis, 5S, better ergonomics and quality management. All my co-workers are great people to work with and have a similiar hard-working and positive – more... attitude as I do and working with them are the most enjoyable part about the job. – less

Gentex is a great company to work for. I have learned many things and gained much experience on concepts of topics such as Toyota Production System (TPS), standardized work, lean manufactering, cost-benefit Analysis, 5S, better ergonomics and quality management. All my co-workers are great people to work with and have a similiar hard-working and positive – more... attitude as I do and working with them are the most enjoyable part about the job. – less

Good place to work.Good benefits and the people i worked with were great.Management was also nice to work with.All in all a good and fun place to work.

A lot of how you like your job depends on what department you work in. Life in electronic assembly is generally pretty nice, while the sub assembly department is a nightmare. The benefits are some of the best you will ever get at any job. The people, however, are generally unfriendly, quick to pass judgement on you, and LOVE to talk bad about you behind – more... your back. (it will happen, GUARANTEED!) management has some communication issues, but otherwise, the work itself is fairly easy and not very stressful. – less

I recently had a tremendous opportunity to travel to Germany and assist our electrical engineering department with the development of our new camera systems. Upon my return, the company utilized my relationships with our German colleagues and promoted me to an Associate Program Engineer.

On a typical day, I associate with our office in Germany and – more... make sure they have product samples, engineering drawings and anything they might need to be the face of the company. I also formally launch new and existing product for the Volkswagen Group.

My manager is very open-minded and let's his team work with their customers as they please - as long as it lines up with company goals. My co-workers are the same; great to work with.

My choice for searching is two-fold. First, I enjoy managing people. I'm very passionate about it and managing a project just is not the same. The second is our compensation. We are paid well below market value.

The company is great and I enjoy it greatly. – less

This company sub is run by the PA home team. However they still have good autonomy and a good but untrained workforce. As a for instance when asked why they do not use stop watches (spec requirement) to check for air leaks in oxy hoses the answer is "I know how long ten seconds is".
Plant GM runs the roost but he is still fair and quality minded.

Do not confuse the new Gentex with the old Gentex, it left when the Fogg rolled into power. The fog may be gone but the politicans who kissed up are still in power, the CEO seems to be out of touch with the reality.

I loved this company when I started but they have steadly declined promoting arrogant, political, and sometimes incompetent managment. – more... So "financial" difficulties, ROI issues, not profitabilty, have set in due to the number of gaffs by management. They took their eye off the ball and wallowed in their own greatness, putting all the eggs in one product basket, riding existing products without improving or re-developing them, over-reaching their capabilities, ignoring the customer needs, building uneeded recurring costs into products, and introducing quality issues because they don't understand the function.

Now for the last 6 months they have been letting all of the good experienced people go, all people who have higher wages, vacation, and stock options, read that for what it is. All of this violates at least 2 if not 3 of the fabled Gentex Foundations. Anyone with 8+ years of experience can expect a pink slip. They are the ones paying for it rather than those who are the root cause.

I am looking for a new job. – less

The executive management is very inexperienced in business making numerous bad decisions costing 100's of thousands and in some cases millions. You are expected to help compensate for this lack by working 11-12 hour days as standard. Many long term employees and their are very few of them left have racked up hundred of hours in vacation pay. This is – more... due to management not allowing them and the employee paranoid about taking any in fear of being fired. Retaliation is the name of the game and throwing people under the bus is an everyday occurance. The environment is very hostile and unprofessional. The co-workers are all paranoid so a lot of back-stabbing goes on. The most joy you would get from the job is getting a paycheck and knowing you were underpaid. – less