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Brooks Instrument

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Brooks Instrument reviews

3.7

73% would recommend to a friend

(65 total reviews)

Jim Dale

76% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Brooks Instrument has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 65 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Brooks Instrument 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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65 reviews
4.0
Dec 7, 2017

Former Engineer

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good people with a change in top management that is improving relations. Open door policy with management for feedback. Employee safety is a top priority. Work/Life balance is very good.

Cons

Lack of focused, coordinated direction on company wide direction of resources. Old guard throw roadblocks up with little/no attempt to resolve. Lack of discipline enforcement on employee policies.

1.0
Sep 10, 2017

Job related characteristics

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

Poor management team in the company

Cons

Looking only for short gains, disregard potential long gains for the company

1.0
Jun 19, 2017

A Failure of Leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are some good engineering and technical personnel. Also, there are some good sales, support, marketing and product management personnel.

Cons

There have been several ownership changes in last 15-20 years, and many mid- and senior-level management changes over the last 5-10 years. Executive management is mostly administrators that provide little real leadership. They tend to be secretive, non-transparent and non-communicative. The newly appointed CEO\COO is a bean-counter with no technical or industry experience. Likewise, an executive-level engineering position was recently filled by someone with no relevant technical experience or expertise, no industry experience with customers, and no experience with competitors or competitive products. This executive has become no more than a project supervisor. Executive management has promoted a number of inexperienced and unqualified personnel to management positions. In my time there were numerous smart, experienced, productive professionals that walked out the door because they simply could not tolerate the management. Their IT tools and processes are disparate and archaic, and IT management is underwhelming. Also, the company is located in an undesirable/unattractive region.

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