Formlabs Reviews

Pros

Completely flexible daily schedule and no cap on vacation. Catered lunch Mon, Wed, and Fri. Kegs on every floor along with ping pong, pool and VR. Professionally, management is flexible and willing to admit mistakes, while open to new suggestions for solutions. I feel like my manager wants me to succeed and will help me get there!

Advice to Management

Continue to work with us on optimizing our company.

Pros

As people have said, it is a laid back, casual atmosphere. A good place to go straight out of college if you want to ease into the workforce or if you had a high intensity job and are looking to still work but somewhere more relaxed.

Don't get caught up on the "free lunches," this is part of your compensation people, and you should view it as such.

As most people have said as well, the overall pay is low and is increasingly creating an atmosphere of low moral. On multiple occasions now Management has made comments about salary reviews and things, but these have yet to happen. It is not uncommon for people to go 1-2 years without any sort of raise. And when you bring it up they just kick the can down the road. The most common excuse being “Max won’t approve a raise for you right now” (apparently the CEO has to sign off on all raises). Of late, it seems the only sure way to get a raise is to get a competing offer and be willing to leave.

Advice to Management

The Manufacturing Team needs qualified management. Bring in someone with true experience running a manufacturing operation and team. The current management is not qualified to run a team of more than 4 people, much less 50.

Follow through on the things you say. Particularly regarding salary and reviews. People talk and know what each other make, and its common knowledge that people hired more recently make more than those who have been here longer and who have more responsibilities. It is also common knowledge that pretty much everyone who has received an outside offer has received a competing offer from Formlabs with a substantial raise. But when the outside offers are 50-100% more than a person's current salary, a proposed 20-40% raise from Formlabs isn’t convincing enough to stay. But it does show that you know the person was significantly underpaid., making your statements about “fair pay” unconvincing.

Pros

Fun-loving and hard working community that makes you feel involved from day one. Many good benefits included in the full time package - including health, vision and dental, 401K, catered lunches and plentiful snacks. Autonomy allows for you to involve yourself in many projects and mold your experience to what benefits both you and the company!

Pros

The community at Formlabs is unlike anywhere else I've worked, and since day one I've felt nothing but welcome at the company - which makes a real difference in your attitude coming to work every day. The people continue to be the best part about Formlabs.

I disagree with the comments below that say that Formlabs is not a company to grow at. I do think there is tremendous opportunity to grow at Formlabs. The company is growing at a very fast rate (and certainly not without its pains) but with that brings advancement opportunities and new roles/projects to explore. One thing that was always consistent during my time at Formlabs was the vast opportunity to try new things. These could be things related or unrelated to your role, but exploration and growth is not only supported, but encouraged.

+ really awesome product that everyone is passionate about

Advice to Management

Act with more urgency! The people at Formlabs are awesome - keep it that way and don't lose them.

A lot of people don't realize how much work is being done behind the scenes to make improvements, and they feel they are not being heard. Make it more clear that you are listening through more transparency and action.

Pros

Fun perks like free meals, classes, and cool presentations
Flexible hours + schedule (within reason)
Freedom to work on projects you enjoy
Culture encourages learning and community
Good professional development (if you take a strong initiative)

Pros

Unlimited vacation, freedom to try new ideas, work with smart people

Advice to Management

The management should think about why we are losing people, and take this issue seriously. An anonymous survey is probably more helpful to get the true feedback from employees.

Pros

- full transparency into why certain practices are in place
- open to different experiences & recommendations
- constantly being challenged to take on more & grow professionally
- catered lunch 3x a week
- fantastic health care & HR benefits
- smart, curious co-workers

Pros

- startup benefits: food, coffee, dogs, social events, town halls

- life benefits: full health coverage, unlimited PTO, flexible hours (when your work is done, which comes with long hours. I don't expect this to last forever but could be wrong)

day to day culture at Formlabs is great, no "trapped" feeling like you might experience at a larger company. People are not only friendly, but likely graduates from reputable programs with interesting stories and experience. Overall it's easy to find intelligent and amicable co-workers across all teams.

products, technology, and innovations are incredible. Things move very quickly. You're never the smartest person in the room.

Advice to Management

Direct internal changes within the company and teams based on what your employees ask. Understand when the scrappy, laissez faire startup mentality has run its course and clear definition of roles, project accountability, and worker potential should take its place

Formlabs is no longer a garage operation. It cannot be expected for worker motivation to solely lie in an entrepreneurial spirit and stock value of the company. People need clearly defined responsibility, ACTUAL growth transparency, recognition (for better or worse), career guidance, and acceptable and competitive compensation.

How do requests reach the final decision makers? Are there lenses between that might affect the outcome? Actions speak louder than words.

Pros

-Fun people
-Extracurricular activities are fun
-Interesting product
-potential to be a solid company

Advice to Management

-Hire real management and pay your people to do the job or going public will only ever be a dream

Pros

- Fast growing company
- Tangible product, with a real impact in the world
- Great co-workers
- A lot of opportunity to learn from a broad set of teams - everyone is willing to share with everyone else.