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Benchmade-Knife-Company

Great place to work if you want to get away with chatting away with co-workers for ungodly amounts of time with absolutely no consequences while others around you loose any motivation to work hard.

If you want to get ahead in your career, you need to be a favorite of the management.

Most management is awful other than the main bevel/surface lead on day shift, and will literally never follow up with you about anything you ask or talk about with them, and the communication here in general is the worst.

Swing and grave shifts rarely do much work (at least in my department) and work that's harder to do often gets left for you to do on days.

Do you like passive aggressive notes? Because those aren't uncommon to see around from other shifts or co-workers.

Asked to be trained on certain skills relevant to a position I wanted, and was told I'm "not allowed to learn them"    later told I couldn't get the position due to not knowing same skills.

Actually pretty good benefits overall, good discount on products.

Some really good people on the shop floor who do care about you and will take time to teach you and give you pointers if you're new.

Sometimes the company buys everyone lunch or some kind of treat, with extra long lunches which is nice.

The upper management personnel needs to be more accountable for their decision making process. Middle management needs to have better job security. Dont eliminate the personnel if the company is in need of a different business path. Working relationships are developed and personalities find the way to accomplish the task at hand. when management is relived from there duties another person will replace that position and relationships will need to be formed all over again. If middle management has a quick turn over the average employee suffers because his career is more at risk with every new person with the power to ultimately determine his/hers employment and career path. My suggestion is give the personnel the option to retrain or relocate throughout the company.

benchmade was a grate place to work for in 2008 but from 2010 to now the management has gone down hill if you are not buddy buddy with your boss you will be on a short list to be terminated. the HR department is not there to work with the employees they are for the management. most of the co-workers where grate to work with the owner and his family where grate but the COO and down where only there for there own goals and not for the company if you where buddy's with your boss you could get away with anything you wanted even not coming in late on a daily bases, chatting and watching videos on your cell phone instead of working, chatting with other employees away of your assigned equipment, leaving early for lunch/break and returning late.

Went from a small family owned company to a larger corporation. Instead of promoting from within they hired from outside and quality and morale took a hit. Promises of normal hours were false. 10 hour work days. Mandatory saturdays and HR doesn’t care about your lack of work life balance. Management cares only about pushing product, quality or not, out the door. Not a single care about retention. Instead of team building and helping it’s workers grow they are always finding ways to get you in trouble. Management will fire you rather then guide you to become a better worker.

Working at Benchmade was great until new management arrived. They created all types of unnecessary regulation and punishment for minor problems that could be solved with a simple talking to. The workload you have generally pretty high no matter where you are but it's fine if you like to stay busy. I was a very hard worker and broke records for production and I went unnoticed and when I made a mistake i was the first to hear about it. Management is the only issue at this company, your fellow employees are mostly stellar and awesome to be around.

When I started working here, I would have given this place five stars on Indeed. It was really great at that point. Everyone was supportive and not very strict about the little things as long as people were showing up and doing the work. The best part about this place is you can listen to your headphones while you work.
The company is growing and demand is high so there is a lot of overtime and many department changes

Experienced manager and cam to Benchmade seeing and hearing growth and great culture. Arrived and found extreme growing pains and turnover at middle management positions monthly. Company tried to focus on training and documentation but management and long-term employee turnover made this almost mission impossible. Good luck Benchmade!

This company has been pretty awesome to work for, it has a very young person atmosphere. The experienced workers will help you out in a second. As long as your heads down, your bustin your butt, and keeping to yourself the leads and supervisors will never bother you, just do what they ask and you'll be good. This company has some of the best company benefits out there that is a HUGE bonus for anyone who wants a job with a future there is plenty of room to move around but you'll need to prove yourself before it happens.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Hands down, the people. Great culture and benefits. Fun events and growth and development opportunities. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
It's fast-paced, changing and high workload.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's fun, with lots of events, parties, picnics and bring your child to work day events. Love the people.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
No typical day, it changes and keeps you on your toes.

I worked for three year. two in assembly and one in materal handling. I did everything from building the knifes to clean and boxing them.

Hardest part of the job was most peoples attitudes twaords upper management, and trying to keep people foucused on the task at hand.

I mostly enjoyed helping everyone out and gettign the job done i really felt that I earned my paycheck.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Cnc operator 32 salaries reported	$19.49 per hour
Cnc mill operator 25 salaries reported	$21.83 per hour
Shipping and receiving clerk 18 salaries reported	$19.04 per hour
Finisher 18 salaries reported	$18.95 per hour
Process lead 10 salaries reported	$27.92 per hour

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