Fluke Networks Reviews

Pros

Balance of work and family

Cons

They do not have clear career paths or training opportunities

Pros

Nice colleagues to work with

Cons

Working with inexperience management and not a dynamic and rewarding place to work

Advice to Senior Management

Understand the market, develop effective strategy, listen to your employees and don't be fickle minded

Pros

Free parking.
Danaher stock is a good investment. You can take advantage of that better thru any broker than by any company program.

Cons

Management is a mix of Marvin Milquetoasts and Danaher brownshirts, and all are incompetent.
Customers are treated like necessary evils. Employees are treated like disposable wipes.
Everyone is subject to layoff or firing. Many people quit. Mediocrity is the new "good."
Skills you learn here aren't transferable to any other company.
Human resources department is untrustowthy and indolent.
Pitiful benefits.

Advice to Senior Management

To Danaher, please accelerate divesture discussions. The faster this company is spun out of Danaher the better it will be for employees and clients.

Pros

Good products, with positive brand following at many customers. Most people there seem to really like working there, and many have been there a very long time. Great job for those that want a very technical, hands-on sales role.

Cons

Many products are out-dated. Very, very low average sale price of $5-10K. Takes a lot of churn to get to your number. Be prepared to be asked where you are every 5 minutes. Constant reorganization.

Pros

The pre-Danaher employees are quite good. They remember the value of customer satisfaction and sound engineering.
An in house cafeteria makes in convenient to avoid the awful Washington weather.

Cons

Zero job security. Danaher has many tools to allow managers to fire employees. They are used ruthlessly.
Stone-age medical and dental benefits.
Sneaky management. They say one thing and do the opposite, or operate behind the backs of employees.
Promises are never kept.
Danaher "core values" are a cyncial joke.

Advice to Senior Management

Please stop sending out "surveys" that pretend to show that employees are happy. They know better and your credibility only suffers from the charade.

Pros

Stable hours.
Benefits good on paper. (Actual medical plan provider is least preferred by providers)

Cons

70s work environment.
Management boxed in by Danaher constraints and fear making waves

Advice to Senior Management

Be a bit more courageous getting Danaher management to better support organic growth. Right now, we can do anything as long as it does not grow headcount. Some key areas of the core business are grossly understaffed.

Pros

- Danaher benefits package
- Leader in Cable and Fiber testing and verification industry
- A few intelligent and great leaders
- Slowly evolving out of the ways of old, and now there is more hope for the future

Cons

- Lack of innovation in an evolving industry, and if they aren't careful could be left behind in the future.
- A few leaders and employees are resting on their laurels and lacking the qualities and intelligence required for their positions.
- Certain business practices can be redundant and counter-productive.
- Old and repetitive ways of thinking are still holding the company back.

Advice to Senior Management

You are doing a good job on the business side, but now you need to focus on hiring leaders that will challenge the rest of the leadership team to see past yesterday, today or at best two years down the road. You need innovation and a true vision into the future.

Pros

Good Benefits and they allow you to balance work and personal life. financially stable company with the backing of the even larger Danaher corporation.

Cons

Highly Politicized, promotions based on who you know in management than achievements.
A lot of redundancy many reports and meetings.
Very aggresive revenue growth targets.
Limited resources provided to help you achieve your goals.
Very stressful place to work.
Management does not communicate well with rank and file.
Some of their products are outdated.

Advice to Senior Management

Get over yourselves! Act like leaders not like a bunch yes men who only read prepared statements!

Pros

Excellent work life balance allowance; competetive health plans and other benefits; talented pool of engineers who take pride in their work; ability to work on challenging assignments

Cons

Strategic direction lacking by management; penny wise pound foolish attitude leading to wasted opportunities and short term focus; political in nature, sometimes run like a club, with elitist priveleges for som

Advice to Senior Management

Top management should look at other hi tech companies and come up with solid long term plans which are communicated transparently to the employees; reduce "club" mentality and political "my connections and me" mentality

Pros

Fair pay in most cases, decent benefits, great spot if you live north of Seattle. Nice to be under the Danaher umbrella if you're looking for security. A leader in its industry, so there are some products you can be proud of.

Cons

Highly political environments. Lots of sister companies fighting for the same resources, quality nearly always takes a back seat to schedule and cost. Review process doesn't impact raises, hence once you reach the ceiling of your position, it's hard to go anywhere else.

Advice to Senior Management

Come up with a reasonable and realistic road map, don't constantly launch projects with unrealistic schedules, reward your top performers more than poor performers.