Ingersoll-Rand Employer Reviews

Management is disconnected from all sense of reality. They do not value their employees.

Poor place to work.
No leadership.
Inexperienced leadership.
Numerous re-orgs and leadership changes.
No direction.
No infastructure to support new product development.
Too much focus on growing India and China design centers.
No concept of quality.

Good place to work and learn. Fast pace environment, good people to work with

1) GOT BASIC KNOLEDGE OF QUALITY
2)A TYPICAL DAY MY FIRST INSPECTION OF MATERIAL.
3) CO WORKER WERE CO-OPERATIVE.

scheduling production of gas compressors for oil field industry
purchasing manager and purchased all parts and industrial supplies for manufacture of compressor
learned how to read blue prints for the production of gas compressors
management was open door and allowed employees freedom to shine, talents not repressed
co-workers awesome, we all worked – more...  hard together and played hard outside of work
most enjoyed being able to do my job without being "handled" or over-supervised – less

As an experienced design engineer this was a very poor career choice. No opportunity for advancement. Poor work culture. No job stability. In my short time there, I survived many layoffs and re-orgs--having worked for 5 different managers. All good people, but none truly qualified to lead a design engineering group. I say this because none had any real – more...  design engineering/product development experience.
Trane--now IR, is a management company, not interested in innovation or engineering. My experience with IR is that they are not known for innovation or quality. They are a "me too" company often last to the market with an inferior product. It's just not part of their culture to develop a quality product. They put on a good facade though.
The company is run like a discount department store--Buy a product from someone else, re-badge it, and sell it. No thought is put into design or quality. They just don't have the infrastructure to support that type of development if they wanted to. Those that wanted to, failed.
Yes, I'm bitter. I'm sad that I had to leave the Tyler, TX area to find a better job. But, I chose to leave. Yes, the poor housing market helped contribute to some of the layoffs. Downturns in the economy are times to innovate and develop new products. Not cut your capabilities and rush to the India and China labor markets thinking you can develop there on the cheap. If you don't know how do innovate, develop and launch a product at home, what makes you think you can do it in a foreign country with any better luck?
The fact is, Trane and IR in general, is poorly led. As with too many companies, they choose to only look as far ahead as the next quarter, focusing on short term stock prices. Long term, who knows how long Trane will remain in business or part of IR? One thing for sure, I will never buy another Trane product for my home or any item with an IR name plate. – less

Great company to work for. Some reservations on the discretion of who should be hired in direct.

Strong rotational program with good learning opportunities

Great pay but long hours. Benefits are great and people are willing to help each other.

I really liked working there immensely for the first 3 years or so. Management went through lots of changes; people did get nervous about their jobs, therefore, attitudes did change, foreseeing future.

When I was first hired team work was excellent and we made great strides in creating sales. When management changed so did the whole teams attitude, for the worst.

This company used to allow the brands in their portfolio to operate independently. However, change needed to happen to allow certain brand strength to help the other companies win projects instead of teaming up with a sister company's competitors. It is all under one roof today and that was an important step in grow the business overall. Ingersoll Rand – more...  is a fine company to work for and cares for its employees. – less

I worked for this company for six years (starting with American Standard Companies, then Trane, then Ingersoll Rand). I survived many lay-offs, but finally fell victim. I loved working as part of the larger picture for the company, but the group I worked in had serious upper management issues with strategy and execution.

It does not make sense for some CFO's beer buddy come in as the new GM, and start laying off people left and right as a 'cost-reduction' strategy. Bascially, the guy was just doing what he knew at the most, which was not in line with our goals. He was not follwoing corporate policies on just about each projecy he carried out. That was his way of making – more...  an impact. – less

Ingersoll Rand is a globally diversified company with much to offer in many different career fields. I enjoyed my time with this company as well as the people with whom I worked.

Best job I've ever had - I looked forward to every day up until a corporate wide management purge in 2002. Great people, work atmosphere, balance, and esprit de corps.

t think the company is great to work for and the employee thier work very hard for long periods of time they give more than they take for such a company that will be around for another 29 yrs.

I started working at the Trane facility (part of IR) about six years ago. At that time it was a nice, friendly place to work. Sadly, over the years it has really gone down to the point where I would NOT advice anyone to work there. I worked in the design engineering department at the Tyler, TX facility.