Great company has lost its way - Anonymous employee Orica Employee Review

3.0
Aug 29, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

International company. Excellent products. Outstanding employees and middle management

Cons

Somewhat aimless. The board & CEO have hired a lot of mining people who do not know how to run a commercial business. Extractive mining businesses are different to businesses that sell things to customers. Hopefully they will engage with people who can sell and run businesses in the future and return to a position of strength. It is difficult however as he company made a lot of bad acquisitions in the mining boom which it has never recovered from.

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Global leader in segment, safety procedures, and values.

Cons

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