FEI Reviews

Pros

Intellectually open and dynamic engineering company,It is possible to work and make a difference at this company, however don't expect to be rewarded for it,
A lot of possibilities for travel and encountering different cultures,

Cons

Hampered by horrendously bad communication and lack of investment in the tools required to share knowledge and improve operations.
A stated above there is no reward for performance at this company -- the inverse is true as well, doing nothing and keeping to yourself will net you the same payrise.
Unwieldy corporate culture -- departments are driven by people not processes, some of the people are incredibly intelligent, the majority are so so performers who would be better served working for the somebody like GE or Intel.
Email is the only system that reliably works so everything gets done on outlook -- there are other tools but the communication culture is so bad that nobody has the discipline to use them.

Advice to Senior Management

You will improve the bottom line by ranking and yanking -- with better information systems you can metric the performance better and drive the company in the right direction culturally rather than trying to drive the company to better numbers using treacherous processes -- huge potential for growth

Pros

Some of the people are great, Money is ok... benefits were ok..

Cons

They allow on job Bullying, and there is really no clear process. I was very disappointed with the company totally.. Wish I never worked there.

Advice to Senior Management

Workplace Harassment, I put up with it for 9 months, till I just could not state it anymore... one was replaced by a second one... company policy needs work
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Pros

open and dynamic work environment, managers are fair and supportive, staff are intelligent and collaborative

Cons

no opening in R&D for now

Advice to Senior Management

have some infrastructure to help the temporary employee to develop career

Pros

stable company, interesting products and technology, people working there are professional but casual and generally nice to work with. Advancement potential if you are in the right place at the right time

Cons

High achievers are rewarded with more work not compensation, while others who just get by have no reason to do more... we all get roughly the same increases of 1-3% IF there is an increase. 50-50 shot at that.

So the performance based comp is a bit of a joke unless as I said, you are in the right place at the right time or manage to transfer around.

Advice to Senior Management

Get back to basics. The company will never grow the way you want it to until you get the fundamental functions working together smoothly.

Management plays musical chairs every 2-3 years, and half completed solutions to our real problems get scrapped. We do it all over again, just in a different way so someone could have a so-called accomplishment on his resume.

Quit telling us about cutting costs when the executives wasted a ton of money after being stuck in Europe because of the volcano - and later bragging about it. What was wrong with staying there and WORKING?

Pros

Exciting work, generally sharing and collaborative, good choices by senior management most years to stay competitive

Cons

Conflicts with The Netherlands branch about who is in charge of what resulted in untenable goals

Advice to Senior Management

Stay agile!

Pros

interesting field of work, many different research costumers, great direct lower management,

Cons

sometimes a lot of travel, higher management decisions not always clear, to much paperwork

Advice to Senior Management

trust more your one people and ask them what is best to improve the company