Nanometrics Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Nanometrics as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – One the best group of people i've every worked with

Cons – upper management somewhat snooty and don't seem to care about employees needs

Advice to Senior Management – listen to your employees; the real people

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nanometrics full-time for more than a year

Pros – Sweet promises of learning culture, good training, good career advancement

Cons – None of the promised will be delivered to anyone, no matter how hard you try.
No training will be provided. You will be on your own.
Abusive manager who will overstep their boundaries to interfere with your role, responsibility even if you don't work for them.
Abusive management who has no care whatsover if you are healthy or well enough to do your job. They put an severely knee-injured worker into cleanroom to walk hundreds of yards everyday.
Ethics issues like physical sexual harassments against women employee are tolerated by management.
Smart accounting to make quarterly results good are rampant.
Abuse of work visa & tax fraud are by employees are encouraged.
Leadership & management who don't have clue about the technology, business, competition, customer & suppliers & worst, their role, function and responsibilities.
Poorly managed, overstaffed org where no one is working & bosses who disappears along with all ya colleagues.
No one want to do anything but just draw their salaries. Nothing is happening.
Poor compensation. No promotion, no increment, no promotion, no bonus.
Everyone is more busy punting stocks than anything else.
Loosing mart share in top 2 customer since 2010. Zero mart share in Logic. Highly dependent on just 2 customers for revenue.
Laid off 50% of service personnel without batting an eyelid.
Poor technology leadership. Just a company who assembly high-school lab parts to pass it off as cutting edge leading metrology tool

Advice to Senior Management – No advise

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Nanometrics full-time for more than a year

Pros – Oppurtunity to learn at work

Cons – No hike and hard to get promotion

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nanometrics

Pros – Dynamic environment.
Get to move from project to project often and learn new things.
Get to work with people from multiple departments, easy to see "the large picture".
Decent amount of independence. Can take on and handle projects as I see fit.
Decent health plan.

Cons – Hard to get promoted or get a raise.
Gaining visibility at the lower levels is difficult.
Besides health plan, no real perks for employees. No food provided, no transportation deals provided.

Advice to Senior Management – Nanometrics is more of a "place to work". Not a place to have a career. Need to focus on bringing the people at the bottom up, and maintaining competitive wages, benefits, and perks.

Current Employee – been working at Nanometrics

Pros – company growth opportunities, most of people are great.

Cons – not collaborative environment in general.

Advice to Senior Management – respect employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nanometrics

Pros – Low turnover rate. That is if you're lucky to survive the layoffs.
Improved 401k plan services. In the past you could only make changes twice per year through the payroll dept. Now the employee has more control over contributions & plans.

Cons – Highly political environment. Too many layers of management.
Even after 2 years of merging with Accent, it still seems like 2 different companies under one building.
Little opportunity for advancement.
Low morale due to layoffs.
Funky 3rd party medical plan administration company that most medical, dental places you visit look at you funny when you give them the plan card.

Advice to Senior Management – How about no bonuses for Management when it's been decreed no raises for the employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nanometrics full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good culture, tie bonding among colleagues
Working hours can be flexible to accommodate individual's needs

Cons – Needs to travel multiple times in a year

Former Employee – worked at Nanometrics full-time for more than a year

Pros – good salary, employee stock purchase plan.

Cons – managers treat you as slave.

Advice to Senior Management – listen to your employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nanometrics

Pros – to get experience of this vision

Cons – lack of communications between management and employee

Advice to Senior Management – more talk and discuss with in Team

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nanometrics

Pros – Flexible hours, and a stress free work environment. People easy to get along with, and a good vacation plan. Pleasent work atmosphere.

Cons – Management a little out of touch and disfunctional. Possibility of salary increase and promotions very small. Top heavy enterprise with little in the way of rewards for good work.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to employees more, improve productivity and recognize efforts better. The origanization is getting increasingly top heavy. Better employee empathy skills required.