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3.6

73% would recommend to a friend

(297 total reviews)
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Steve Kelley

87% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Advanced Energy has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 297 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Advanced Energy 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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297 reviews
1.0
Nov 15, 2013

A once-great company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Before recent management took over, was a great company where innovative people could flourish and were well-compensated. It used to be the kind of company where you want to work forever...

Cons

New management came in and reduced compensation dramatically, fired extremely talented people (many just left), and off-shored much of the business. The people who have survived are overworked and there out of fear of losing their jobs. The "engineering" team is now working in a manufacturing facility with no sunlight ("the dungeon"), inside cubicles that are flood-stained (I'm not making this up) and with no promise of a future there. Everyone I know who worked there has quit (if they were lucky) or have been layed off. The only good news is that all the extremely talented people that have left have gone to work for their competitors.

2.0
Aug 17, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Onsite remodeling is welcomed and mostly good.

Cons

Merit/achievements often trivialized, management taking credit. Separate projects often duplicated the same work with little to no coordination. Poor documentation and engineering development process.

2.0
Nov 18, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

*$17.00 an hour *Free coffee *Friday raffles/lunch if you make your goal quota *Diverse workers AE *can* be a friendly place to work, depending on your skill level and sociability

Cons

*Unprofessional management (being out of stock of essential items due to forgetfulness/disconnect between tasks and manager knowledge of tasks/chaotic materials handling system making little sense) *Extremely high turn-over rate of employees (in my three month contract my small department lost seven people)(this is especially true if you are employed there under a temp agency, which is most workers there). *Condescending management which preaches a “family environment” while belittling employees without learning their names *Has a culture of overworking employees (50-56hrs a week mandatory) and is strict regarding medical or personal time off. Very officious and family-based up-front, but in reality they value money and goals more than people. Little thought is put into the appropriate management of tasks, and work flow suffers due to incompetency rather than technology shortages

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