Rudolph Technologies Reviews

Pros

Challenging work, opportunity to learn and experiment.
Flexibility, nice management, work environment is great, people are good.
You can have a balance between work and personal life here.

Cons

Stressful at times, but not too bad. Sometimes the communication between groups is lacking which could lead to additional work.

Pros

Worked with small groups. Company was good at letting people know what's going on. Also had many merges to expand the product lines.

Cons

Inadequate trainings. I felt people were not willing to provide technical information to help new hires.

Pros

Very easy going atmosphere and the engineering staff is a great group of folks. Flexible hours and opportunity to work from home on a limited basis. Great benefits with average compensation. Location provides easy access to major roads and avoids most of the traffic congestion. Internal office space was large with plenty of windows and furnishings were great.

Cons

Struggles with how to run a software organization. Disorganized priorities. Too dependent upon new customer business. Neglects existing customer needs. Too willing to cut corners. Unwillingness to listen to engineering experts. Treats employees as expendable. Micro manages without providing support. Below average salary compensation.

Advice to Senior Management

Reorganize the local management and listen to the employees more. Some of them have many years of experience and are very knowledgeable about the products and their customers. Work with the engineers to develop a strategy that will result in a superior product.

Pros

Plenty of work to catch up on.

Cons

Procedures and policies were very poorly written and were not followed. Supervisor very wishy-washy on any decisions that needed to be made, many short cuts and work arounds were done on a daily basis. I was told on my 2nd day of work that everyone at that facility was looking for a new company to work for because they have been overworked for 3 years with deap layoffs with absolutely no pay raises in over 3 years.

Advice to Senior Management

When hiring someone for their knowledge and expertize listen to their suggestions instead of trying to shut them up, they might just be able to get the control in your configuration management group because there is none now.

Pros

The Semiconductor industry is a fast paced environment. Rudolph Technologies has adapted well to the environment by being a nimble company. Rudolph has made some good acquisitions in this time - this has allowed for some good growth opportunities.

Cons

There is a little too much of a small company feel here - by this, I mean favoritism, promotions based on individual preferences, not always based on merit. The upper management is a little too absorbed in padding their own wallets rather than looking out for the interests of the employees.

Advice to Senior Management

More focus on pure product management, focused product development. Hire and keep employees and managers who have delivered results vs. managers and employees who spend time sucking up to higher management.

Pros

Known as one of the great companies to work for . Great and friendly HR, its policies and benefits. Really compassionate about employees and very few cuts even during the severest downturns. Lot of talented and friendly people to work with, over all great environment

Cons

Getting too ambitious in pursuit of beating KLA, too many acquisitions and mergers , unable to concentrate on core technologies, very few growth opportunities and prospects because the company is shrinking.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to be concentrate on core products and what the customer needs. Needs more control over customer support and provide more opportunities to talented individuals

Pros

- Technology
- Inspection Business Unit people

Cons

Compensation seems to be unfair.

Advice to Senior Management

- Dont reward senior management with bonuses when they do not meet objectives.

Pros

Rudolpph Although is a small company, It has pleanty of equipment ( technology ) that you can learn and work with. The training experience I had was great even though the most you learn is on the road. At Rudolph there not such a thing as micromanaging, they offer on site positions as well as traveling positions.
Its not hard to become proeficient because the knowledge is well share between all workers. Rudolph counts with a technical support team 24 / 7 that is always willing to help you out as a coworker or as a customer.
 If you are willing to relocate there will always be a position por you for the most part. The salaries in my opinion are competitive.

Cons

With the economy as it is there are a lot of cost cuting efforts unfortunatelly this means small raises and unless you would like to travel or moved to another city not much growth. Vacation time when an onsite position sometimes could pose a problem because there should be somebody covering the contract with the customer, but for the most part all of the supervisors / managers will work with you so you can enjoy the time off. This could be a downside or a plus for some people, sometimes there is plenty work to do that OT is necesary. Your shift could vary from compress to M - F with out a salary compensation.

Advice to Senior Management

I'm really happy with managers ( no comment )

Pros

Exposure to cutting edge technology.

Cons

The semiconductor industry performance has been poor the past few years.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize job markets are not equal between locations. Retaining talent and loyality does require different approaches to operation and incentive other than a 'one approach fits all'.