Hanna Instruments Reviews

Well for one, read the reviews here - the positive ones are written by management to offset the bad (I saw it while I was there and know some of the people 'tasked' to write the good reviews). The review mentioning the phone being thrown out of the window in a meeting is also true - the CEO had good days and bad - if you caught him on a bad - watch out. The CEO is very hands-on, which is good and bad. He is very intelligent and knows the analytical instruments and chemistry front and back - if he could stick to focusing on those things - the company would be a lot better than it is. Unfortunately, he micro-manages everything and doesn't give his managers any room to make decisions on their own. He also changes his mind - often. Rework is a day to day occurrence, and its easy to get frustrated as your always going back to change things that were previously "approved". I can only imagine the millions lost there due to last minute scraps and redesigns of major projects. There were multiple instances where people were fired in "groups", sales people were especially vulnerable to being let go with little notice or reason, however I saw managers and others also let go because the CEO was simply in one of his 'moods'. Its sad, the people there are great, and they make a solid product. This company has so much potential - but the CEO in my mind holds it back due to his volatile personality.

I was dumb enough to believe the hype that the company was exploding & couldn't keep up with all the incoming sales & was looking to rapidly open offices all over the country. I ignored the claims of planted good reviews( which I found to be true). Since then I have seen at least 6 major restructuring changes(hard to keep track) a new sales plan/commission that is a bigger joke than the last. You will be lucky to make a third of any commission they claim you can make regardless of what you do. In the last month alone nearly half the sales force has quit so far. The few people that were let go were done in an unprofessional public manner to leave no doubt that they were being let go and not leaving. They even said one person was dealing with too many health issues and that was the reason they let them go and they wanted it to be clear. The people that were loyal to the company for years and did a great job weren't even acknowledged as leaving let alone appreciated. They threatened layoffs if we didn't sell more in 30 days and when we met the goal they had us sign off on a new compensation plan that paid us less retroactively before we saw what our paycheck was going to be.