
Underwriters Laboratories employee surveys are collected by Vault editors, Vault Gold Surveys provide detailed information on careers and hiring at specific employers.

Section Manager, USA (January 8, 2007)



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Employee Workplace: UL is a bureaucratic company. The better talent will not stay long.
Your creativity and motivatio... READ MORE


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Section Manager, Melville, NY (January 6, 2006)



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Employee Workplace: Very laid back company, to a point that is is hard to get things done.
Lack of ability of senior ma... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: $130,000. READ MORE

Business Outlook: Business is not looking good. Competitors slwly chipping away at the
company. Operations are a mess... READ MORE

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Marketing Manager, Santa Clara, CA (December 2, 2005)



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Employee Workplace: The company is run by incompetent management. There are too many
internal politics and since there ... READ MORE

Interview & Recruiting: Phone screen by HR - behavioral.
Interview by hiring manager - technical and behavioral.
Interview... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: $90K;
2 weeks vacation;
raise is 0%, 3%, or 5% for bottom 20%, mid 70% and top 10% respectively.
Co... READ MORE

Business Outlook: The company is bleeding cash. This was run like a monopoly for too long
and now is losing market sh... READ MORE

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Documents & Distributions Clerk, Toronto, ON, Canada (June 3, 2004)



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Employee Workplace: Working here is like working for death row, just waiting for the axe to
fall. We have amalgamated ... READ MORE

Interview & Recruiting: Was called for an interview, and had a meeting with HR and the
department manager. Only one round ... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: Current salary is $41,000.00 per annum. For union members there is a
$1500.00
signing bonus in Apr... READ MORE

Business Outlook: Right now there is absolutely no positive outlook for this
organization. Employees are just waitin... READ MORE

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Computer Support Specialist, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada (June 3, 2004)



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Employee Workplace: Not much of a social company.
Extremely hierarcial (Not much interaction between managers and
emp... READ MORE

Interview & Recruiting: Interviwed once by department manager, department supervisor and HR
representative.
Questions per... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: Salary offered as being 45k CAN (discovered it was actually 40K CAN, 2 days after being hired)
Posi... READ MORE

Business Outlook: Employee morale at all time low. (13% satisfaction - mostly managers)
Completely bottom line and pr... READ MORE

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Principal Engineer - measurement, control and laboratory equipment., Melville, NY (March 25, 2004)



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Employee Workplace: Was a parental culture, now a bottom line business culture. Nominal 40
hr. week, business casual dr... READ MORE

Interview & Recruiting: Technical interview by senior engineer. Technical questions on consumer
electronic equipment, speci... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: Salary, benefits partly paid by employee, pension and 401k. 9 paid
holidays and
5 weeks vacation. C... READ MORE

Business Outlook: New president, first non-technical one is driving not for profit company
as a bottom line only orga... READ MORE

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