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Scott Keeney
11 Ratings
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"Good for manager track careers. Not Engineers."
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOPros
Great leadership. Lots of hard working competent engineers, marketers, and managers. Not a place for lackluster performance or big egos.
Cons
Lots of managers. It's not a great place for innovative engineers -- nothing technically exciting on the 5 year plan. But probably decent for those working into management roles. Cross-company team integration is a persistent void. Pockets of business units exist within themselves and can go years without interacting or feeling connected with other ones.
Advice to Management
Micro-team success is to be celebrated, but resist letting the in-group/out-group dynamics infect the culture.
nLIGHT 2016-09-27 22:34 PDT![nLIGHT Logo]()
"Manufacturing Technician"
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Pros
The people are great. There are opportunities for growth and learning.
Cons
The pay could be better. Employees are "spread thin" and asked to perform several different functions.
Advice to Management
Implement more structure and standardization across the entire company. Invest more in IT.
nLIGHT 2016-10-03 12:04 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Look someplace else"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOPros
the actual working people, they know what has to be done.
Cons
no mention of layoff 60+ people in January because of very poor sales
Advice to Management
Why layoff production workers? should of gotten ride of the sales people for not doing there job.
nLIGHT 2016-05-20 13:57 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Cool technology"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at nLIGHT full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
They have cool technology, smart employees and are very flexible with schedules - great for folks with families.
Cons
While the technology is really awesome, the employees are smart and the schedules flexible at times the overall strategic vision and direction of the company is unclear.
Advice to Management
Keep supporting innovation and hiring smart people, and work to clearly communicate company vision and direction.
nLIGHT 2016-02-24 19:24 PSTHelpful (1)
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"Good company that's growing"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at nLIGHT full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Friendly, down to earth, strong products with an unlimited growth, professional, scientific and creative. One of the best places to work in Vancouver.
Cons
Large turnover at times because pay isn't what some other companies provide. Some new members try to hard to change systems that weren't necessarily broken.
Advice to Management
Do more for the quality employees you have, hold accountable the people that aren't doing their job and continue to develop and nurture a positive corporate environment.
nLIGHT 2015-12-16 16:06 PST![nLIGHT Logo]()
"Operator 1"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOPros
co-workers are supportive, superiors have extensive experience in management.
Cons
should install a fool-proof system
Advice to Management
since workers are the end users, they probably would have good suggestions on how to improve the system.
nLIGHT 2015-09-13 08:34 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Administrative intern"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOPros
A really interesting place to work at, as it's vertically integrated. They gave a tour of the labs, which was really cool
Cons
It's not the most exciting place to be in...at least for an intern. Things seemed a bit bureaucratic, and it was hard to see how the entire company functioned.
Advice to Management
Scott Keeney is a cool guy, very smart
nLIGHT 2015-08-06 11:56 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Great leading edge technology, but senior leaders are in over their heads"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOPros
The technology is amazing. There is a lot of market potential.
Cons
Senior management is clueless. HR is poor. Morale is low and no trust in leadership anymore. Need to clean house.
Advice to Management
Upper management needs help in learning how to lead. Stop the excessive turnover in the plant management. Replace HR.
nLIGHT 2015-07-23 22:07 PDT![nLIGHT Logo]()
"Manager"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at nLIGHT (More than 5 years)
Pros
Great opportunity for rapid growth in fiber lasers
One of the few Portland area companies that has a good shot at an IPO
Strong opportunity to learn and grow witth company growthCons
Hard work -- very technical
Management has at times been slow to weed out weak peopleAdvice to Management
continue to support growth
nLIGHT 2015-04-25 18:41 PDTHelpful (6)
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"So happy i left"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOPros
Work with latest and greatest technology. The work can be very interesting.
Cons
Management at this company sucks. I seen a new plant manager about every year. The dilbert princple is alive and well here. Operators who knew absolutly nothing were promoted to supervisors, supervising people with more education and experience. I was an absolte joke having people be your boss who lacked the intelectual capacity to even understand what your job function was. You can imagine how flustrating it was being in a situation where a person who was 50 years old and had no real life work experience was bossing people who had been in the industry for 10-20 years.
Advice to Management
Hire real supervisors and mangers who know what they are doing and stop trying to save a few bucks hiring nannys. It is very disrespecful to employees and working professionals being bossed around by the least qualified person on the property.
nLIGHT 2015-05-21 15:20 PDT
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