Does Advanced Energy pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Advanced Energy employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Advanced Energy. This rating has decreased by 5% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Advanced Energy?

73% of Advanced Energy employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Advanced Energy 3.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Advanced Energy?

Engineer (20) , Technician (8) , Test Engineer (8) , Firmware Engineer (7) , Test Technician (7) , Design Engineer (6) , Manager (6) , Program Manager (5) , Accountant (4) , Engineer II (4) , Intern (4) , Electronics Engineer (3) , Engineer III (3) , Field Applications Engineer (3) , Internship (3)

What are the pros of working at Advanced Energy according to real employee reviews?

"Great people to work with and exciting products to promote." ((in 38 reviews)); "3. Good benefits" ((in 18 reviews)); "Mostly good coworkers, good work life balance" ((in 12 reviews)); "1) Pay is good" ((in 11 reviews)); "Great team to work with." ((in 11 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Advanced Energy according to real employee reviews?

"The management is big on promising to fix things and having to be reminded about the promises quarter after quarter." ((in 18 reviews)); "to upper management are clueless, unable to plan, unwilling to hear feedback, and create a super toxic environment." ((in 11 reviews)); "no bonus not many toilets" ((in 8 reviews)); "Layoffs are frequent and deep; but they spin it in such a way as to not have to make announcements, so most of the public does not see half the layoffs." ((in 5 reviews)); "New leadership are mostly external hires." ((in 5 reviews))

What are employees saying about Advanced Energy layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Advanced Energy layoffs and their outlook for job security at Advanced Energy in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Advanced Energy locations?

Fort Collins , Denver , Milpitas , Lockport , Ronkonkoma , New York , Eden Prairie , Vancouver , Bend , Glendale , Tempe , Calabasas , Carlsbad , San Diego , Redwood City , San Jose , West Hartford , South Lockport , Contempo Tempe , United States Coast Guard - Air Station Sacramento

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Advanced Energy reviews

3.6

73% would recommend to a friend

(297 total reviews)

Steve Kelley

87% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Diversity & inclusion

3.6

Culture & values

3.4

Compensation and benefits

3.4

Career opportunities

3.2

Work/Life balance

2.9

Senior management

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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Reviews by job title

297 reviews

2.0

May 9, 2013

Could be great, I want to be inspired

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of bright people here, Love the location, love the industry.

Cons

Management has everyone who's left that there are more layoffs, and outsourcing coming. No real focus on making this place a great place to work. All the talk is to please the shareholder, and no appreciation for the people that made this company (The Employees). Too bad. I was real inspired to come work in the solar industry but the environment here is not ideal.

4.0

Feb 23, 2013

Talented company, confronts challenging times

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Very talented engineering teams, well established processes, albeit can be somewhat bureaucratic. Groups also often support proper development timelines and engineering feedback to marketing to get real products out with high reliability and in realistic timelines. They also were supportive of opportunities to increase skills, through internal learning opportunities especially.

Cons

CEO's change relatively often,... latest CEO is off-shoring some groups to be closer to customers' manufacturing bases (Asia). Difficult to say how extensive the off-shoring will be. Middle management does a very good job overall, although, they could improve through empowering individuals to have a little more say in what direction they'd like them to work in.

1.0

Dec 12, 2012

AE moto: we cannot deliver!

Software engineer iii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

* Location - Bend, OR is fabulous. * Promises - they said a lot - did nothing. * Offer Letter - had the correct legal disclaimers.

Cons

* Offices - trailers, construction, cubes, dust, bad light, noise, and lack of ventilation (smell). * Management - talk, talk, talk; promise, promise, promise ... no deliveries. * Direction - none. * Dishonesty - I was promised a 10% bonus and quit because they changed the policy and dropped bonuses. * Petty - their HR docs states 401k matching at 50% of the first 5%; which they did until somebody decided to retroactively remove 1/2 of all their matching - months after I had quit. Can they do that ?

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