Veeco Instruments Reviews

I have been working at Veeco Instruments

Pros – Santa Barbara is a great place to live.

Cons – Management is clueless and detached. Reorganizations seem to occur regularly at six month intervals, and these lead to three problems:

1. Projects get lost in the shuffle. As an engineer, you have no confidence that what you work on will still be considered a priority in six month's time.

2. Every reorg seems to introduce yet another layer of management. Even as a senior
engineer, I'm still five layers from the top. More and more of my time is spent generating
reports so that all of my bosses will look productive.

3. Management (especially the newest members) don't seem to know much about the technology they are supposed to be driving. Admittedly, it's arcane stuff, but there's no excuse.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention and try to figure out why people are leaving the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Veeco Instruments full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Technically challenging work environment and room for innovation. Professional manufacturing team

Cons – Poor management strategy and long-term vision.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Veeco Instruments full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The employer feel they can find and replace the employee easily from market, when the production ramping up, they will try to hire the employee aggressively, even provide good incentive to attract the people to join, like sign on bonus, and then just provide the basic product training to start the work; but they will lay them off without hesitate when the business slow down

Cons – bad reputation in the market will make the company to get the people more difficult and difficult, and make talent employee in the company looking for stable opportunity

Advice to Senior Management – Treat all employee as an important component for success, create a home like culture, encourage the creative, vision for long term

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

I have been working at Veeco Instruments

Pros – Salary is average with the industry
Benefits are above average
Profit sharing is ok
Human Resources department tries to create a family type atmosphere

Cons – Training is inconsistent and almost non-existent
A majority of the customers are ex-Veeco employees so for an FSE the working environment is very difficult because most of the customers have more system knowledge than the Veeco employees.
Many times the Veeco employee is set up to fail by not having the needed system training and interfacing with a majority of customers who are ex-Veeco employees with a lot of system knowledge.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide better training for your employees. Even though resources are limited, by not providing a strong base of knowledge for your people, you are essentially setting them up for failure.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Veeco Instruments

Pros – flexible management, salary is not too bad.

Cons – Too many politics inside management lead to waste lots of money . Decision-making is not effective and efficient. Good luck ,ha..

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Veeco Instruments

Pros – Hight tech and smart people

Cons – Mostly clueless, cutthroat senior management.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to find it in yourself to care about others at least as much as you do yourself.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Veeco Instruments

Pros – The Santa Barbara location could not be beat.

Cons – Poort senior management, more like a club that everyone was either trying to get into, or trying to avoid.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your star employees, not just for technical advice, but also about their suggestions for realistic timelines and their concerns about real career development.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Veeco Instruments

Pros – Growth company, exciting technologies, committed employees

Cons – work/life balance, benefits, no-forgiveness environment

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Veeco Instruments full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Very competitive salary and good benefits. Potential to double base pay at plan. Veeco is the #1 or #2 company in targeted markets.

Cons – Limited career opportunities for field sales. Travel requirements can be extensive.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Veeco Instruments full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Company has a lot of technically sound people, good camaraderie among employees and management.

Cons – Semiconductor sector is cyclical, so Veeco is no exception to the up-and-down phases.

Advice to Senior Management – None.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend