Rudolph Technologies Reviews

Pros

Good working environment in the company

Cons

No professional growth for the employees

Advice to Management

Employee professional growth is lacking

Pros

Most of the people are friendly and willing to help.

Cons

No professional growth, seat-of-the-pants decision making process, everything is a crisis.

Advice to Management

Not sure what to offer here. So many things to address.

Pros

compensation, opportunity to travel, opportunity to grow

Cons

requirement to travel (coach) to Asia, no respect for family, personal time, life outside of work

Advice to Management

dont micro-manager, especially when you dont know the area better than your subordinates NEVER promise a title, and then never deliver - that is how you kill enthusiasm, commitment, and employee happiness

Pros

Cool technology. Wide ability to change how you do your job. If you have clear goals or know your (KPI), you are given flexibility to do your job as you see fit. Very steep industry learning curve (yes I find this as a Pro).

Cons

This is a review of the Bloomington location only. KPI changes without notice, and you are often measured by standards that you are unaware. A decade of infighting between business units, MN location suffers from lack leadership. Too many "managers" in title. New hires at MN location are "August Outsiders" and will have hard time gaining trust with former August employees that are now middle management. No mentorship...

Advice to Management

Need to break August mentality at the MN location. Stop the hemorrhage of GOOD employees. New hires do not have knowledge of legacy code (could become very scary and expensive). Red hot leads are left to go cold, make sure you purchase enough licenses for the CRM. Too much money is focused and spent on software fixes where previously expensive hardware (now inexpensive hardware) solutions are available. Use ISO to...

Pros

They are in the right problem space - their products are needed in the industry and they have good penetration for some of them. They are positioned well.

Cons

Everyone in the management and executive teams is in massive CYA mode. Very disjoint, very chaotic, lack of meaningful prioritization, quarter-to-quarter short-term view. This culture trickles down to the troops, which is not good.

Advice to Management

Encourage a culture of NOT playing the blame game and talking smack about fellow team members behind their backs. Encourage a culture of respect and cooperation.

Pros

The work is interesting. Rudolph is open to new ideas but struggles to implement them.

Cons

Rudolph could / should be more organized.

Advice to Management

Don't attempt to do too much. Prioritize.

Pros

Not micro managed. Usually given ample time to prepare for job and to set your own travel schedule. Usually not asked to work overtime or weekends unless you want to.

Cons

On occasion can be asked to travel on short notice. Travel can be over 75% some months. Hard to belong to local clubs or attend any local training or college classes.

Advice to Management

Keep employees updated more on what's going on within the company across the different business units.

Pros

You will never be bored there. There is always something new to work on. Great people, great resources to bounce ideas off of.

Cons

Semiconductor manufacturing is very cyclical meaning if the industry is not doing well it has a trickle down effect. This is the case with many companies like Rudolph.