Cabot Microelectronics Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Cabot Microelectronics as an intern

Pros – Great people
Chill atmosphere
Everyone loves what they do
Company doing really well

Cons – Far out in the suburbs (location)

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cabot Microelectronics as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – A lot of hours and easy work

Cons – Very boring and repetitive work

Advice to Senior Management – Occasional alternative tasks for employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cabot Microelectronics full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – I was at Cabot Microelectronics for 12 years--started there when they were parent of Cabot Corp, went thru the IPO, etc. It's a great company to work for. Work/life balance is a strong value and benefits are consistent with this including a generous time off policy.

Cons – Nothing comes to mind--on the whole working here was a great experience.

Advice to Senior Management – Again, nothing comes to mind. Overall great!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Cabot Microelectronics full-time

Pros – Great culture. Great people. Very flexible.

Cons – Lean staff somewhat limits advancement opportunity

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cabot Microelectronics

Pros – Very supportive of work life balance - always allowed people to address their home front if needed.

Cons – Company has very limited upside. The core business is dying, has a lot of competition from overseas. Customers are often unhappy, causing tension through the organization. New business does not seem promising. All in all, not a great future - you can only cut costs so many times.

Advice to Senior Management – Be bold regarding the future

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cabot Microelectronics

Pros – The employees are hard working and intelligent.

Cons – Top management is awful - out of touch, immature, bloated and poor leaders.

Advice to Senior Management – Get in touch, face the truth, reduce dependence on consensus management.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cabot Microelectronics

Pros – Good company with strong ethics and values. Great safety culture. Still got a somewhat small company feel despite size / revenues.

Cons – Incredibly process orientated and bureaucratic. Prides itself on "the matrix", which means it takes a very long time to drive even incremental change. Trying to become more innovative and entrepreneurial but the DNA is not there.

Advice to Senior Management – Move faster, take some risks. Encourage employees to make decisions, and don't second guess them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cabot Microelectronics full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Powerful system can hold production information, especially quality system. make working more efficient and comfortable. This is a very care safety company and do very well safety job.

Cons – The management system still weak. too much can't tell to employee. So employee feel shock when company make strange decision. For employee have nice training, but poor for manager level.

Advice to Senior Management – All manager need more training to be good manager.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cabot Microelectronics full-time

Pros – Work life balance and strong emphasis on safety

Cons – Can be more risk taking

Advice to Senior Management – Take more risk

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Cabot Microelectronics

Pros – Excellent policies for work/life balance. High level of trust that employees are dedicated and deserve no scrutiny for requests for time off. Company used to offer very good benefits but are decidedly middle of the road now. Nothing special compared to others. Good facility with adequate resources to do the job.

Cons – Upper management is utterly clueless and has created a bloated, inexperienced middle management that runs roughshod over front line employees. Management by fear and intimidation. Numerous people fired for no cause - they simply ran afoul of some middle manager with a vendetta or personal issues. Absolutely zero job security. A very depressing place to work because everyone fears for their job. Performance reviews and job security are directly tied to popularity witih middle management.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the ineffectual, bloated and inexperienced middle management. Their petty games and power struggles are ruining the company if it is already not too late.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend