MTS Systems Reviews

I worked at MTS Systems full-time for less than a year

Pros – Speaking as a mechanical engineering intern,
-hands on time in lab working on company product
-got to design fixtures for various tests
-learned a lot

My experience was that you get out what you put in - I worked hard and my supervisor appreciated it.

Cons – -some tests involved tedious amounts of lab work (tasks became repetitive but was necessary to collect enough data)
-initial learning curve was steep

Overall far more pros than cons

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

I worked at MTS Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Big company lots of opportunity.

Cons – Pay raises very slow in coming.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at MTS Systems part-time for less than a year

Pros – Co-workers are easy to get along with and they pay very well starting off, promotions are easily given if you know what your doing

Cons – slow pace job, you really need to like what your doing in order to not be insanely bored

Advice to Senior Management – kiss their butt, they notice

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at MTS Systems full-time

Pros – With Jeff Graves at the helm and Rich Baker by his side, I am extremely optimistic about the future of the company... finally! Layoffs hopefully are a thing of the past and we have smart people guiding the company. We are once again competing based on quality and innovation rather than trying to be the cheapest around. At the "lower end," the company is still pretty relaxed with self motivation and passion driving innovation. As an engineer, you don't have to "clock in at 8 and clock out at 5," but instead, you get your work done and more often than not, you WANT to stay past 5 to see your project succeed. I am once again excited about MTS's future...

Cons – We still are currently understaffed and struggling to pick up the pieces after the "old regime's" layoffs. The last layoff wasn't "cutting the fat" anymore and hit close to home. It let go quite a few people with irreplaceable knowledge. Hopefully, this never happens again.

Advice to Senior Management – Stick to your word and gain back our trust.

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

I have been working at MTS Systems

Pros – The everday people (non executive) are some of the nicest and smartest people you can work with. You can make in impact immediately and see your work in production. No red tape.

Cons – The Pay for the positions is some of the lowest I have ever seen. The insurance cost is not even worth having. The Sales Group has no clue what they are selling. The Executive group is only about the bottom line. People are just numbers.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your employees better. The perks that used to exiist should not be taken away just to make HR life easier. Replace your HR person and get someone who actually cars for the employees. Pay your employees what they are worth.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at MTS Systems

Pros – MTS provides a solid work culture from the base of employees and the product line. It is a forward thinking company with a strong engineering aptitude and a good, friendly place to work.

Cons – I reported to the CFO at the time who lacked the ability to instill a strong sense of unity and culture within the finance organization. The culture supported and perpetuated by this individual was cut-throat and enabled a strong sense of distrust. She often disregarded long-term employees and had little value for historical practices. Her behavior was such that very few trusted her and felt no or minimal support to fulfill their roles. As such, the finance organization was viewed by others outside the organizations as a necessary, but uncooperative association and the CFO did little to enhance a positive image. If you're looking for a finance position, look outside MTS. Look to those who have already worked within the organization and be diligent in getting feedback. Perhaps the environment has changed over the recent years.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote a positive culture within the firm, solidify management skills of the management team and work to reduce employee voluntary turnover. Make this a positive environment to work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at MTS Systems

Pros – Good benefits, pretty good work life balance

Cons – No room for career growth

Advice to Senior Management – Need less managers and more workers

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at MTS Systems

Pros – Good benefits, good people, interesting products, pretty good track for promotion, easy to move to other positions in the company, not too high pressure or stressful, flexible schedules

Cons – slightly below average pay, pretty dependent on a slumping automotive industry, office gossip, as a developer who works almost exclusively alone on projects it makes it difficult to gather new technical skills and development ideas that one would normally acquire through working together with a group of developers

Advice to Senior Management – do a better job of working with customers in new markets to develop testing methods that they need to grab a new market share, clean up the technical support structure

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at MTS Systems

Pros – Very experienced team of engineers to work with
Some really challenging and innovative projects
No micromanagement
Excellent work life balance

Cons – Pay is very average
Career progression could be slow at times

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at MTS Systems

Pros – Smaller company so you get exposed to a lot. Not a lot of rules.

Cons – Micromanagement in some departments. Lack of vacation time. Too much doomsday talk.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't bring up layoffs at every meeting or how bad the economy is. Trust your employees - get out of their way. Focus on growing the business instead of micromanaging the inside!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend