Vaisala reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(163 total reviews)

Kjell Forsén

69% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Vaisala has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 163 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Vaisala employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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163 reviews
2.0
Mar 24, 2024

Not worth it

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Pros

All I can say here was it was great pay.

Cons

Where do I begin with this one. You are home very little, they will refuse to train you for better jobs, management was too worried about setting the stage for their reign of terror. You have an overall team manager who care very little about the day to day operation's opting to instead lean on two guys who carry their feeling on the shoulders and just find ways to terminate people they don't like. When I was moving to a new area I called and asked if they were ok with it prior to ever putting my house on market. I had my manger tell me he was ok with it as long as I made my jobs and did what I was expected to do. He pushed it up to HR and they had no documents governing moves and distance to airport. So I put my house on the market and sold it pretty quick. I then got a call from the overall team manager and was told he needed to “think” about it all. Exactly a month and a half later, and once I completed the move I was fired for “moving to far from an airport”. My suggestion to anyone considering this company… don't they are more worried about tearing themselves apart then making money.

2.0
Aug 31, 2017

Probably need to be careful

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good people, great technology, good support fo r work life balance.

Cons

Annual reorganization to missing revenue targets. Annual employee purge in response to not meeting full revenue targets. Completly focused on top line numbers. Sales dominates the company so any orderly attempt to invoke process goes out the window at the end of each quarter. More oritented to indidivual sensor technology than integrated systems for customers - to the expense of systems brouhgt into the company via acquisition.

3.0
Dec 11, 2016

A great place to work if you have no career ambitions in life

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great work life balance, good PTO compensation, flexible work schedule and work from home benefits.

Cons

Dealing with Finnish style of working, lack of real leadership (bad matrix implementation), clear nationalism (Finnish bias) with regards to promotion opportunties

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