12 years and counting - Senior Engineering Manager Veeco Instruments Employee Review

3.0
Aug 4, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Challenging company with no chance of boredom as fast environment to work in. Not a place for the meek or lazy. If you can handle excessive work load and learn self reward rather than being recognized by management for hard work. I find myself capable of prioritizing my own work load to only the important items that affect deliverables.

Cons

Not enough resources as management believes in lean staff and overworking them. Projects and new products are always under staffed, under managed, and unrealistic time lines for completion. This always leads to fixing errors and design issues over and over again.

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Cons

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Pros

-Hiring seems egalitarian -The pay was fairly good -Occasional company lunches

Cons

-An endless parade of wasteful daily 30-minute meetings... two per day for some people -Very early hours are the norm; most employees start at 6:00-8:00 AM -The workforce is largely dull suburbanites, with 7-8 males for every female -The office has its fair share of unpleasant bully types. Rigid thinking and low education seem common as well. I suspect this is because Veeco has a big military recruitment program, and ever since it bought Ultratech (of San Jose, CA) back in 2017, MAGA types have become more common. It's probably no coincidence how in recent years, the San Jose branch's Glassdoor score has sunk down to near Veeco's national average.

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