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      Cognex

      Engaged Employer

      Cognex reviews

      3.4

      55% would recommend to a friend

      (474 total reviews)
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      Matt Moschner

      65% approve of CEO

      36% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Work/Life balance

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      2.7

      Senior management

      Cognex has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 474 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cognex 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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      474 reviews
      3.0
      Sep 12, 2018

      Project Manager

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexibility, decent pay/benefits. Friendly people. Play hard environment.

      Cons

      No work life balance. No training whatsoever.

      1.0
      Jul 9, 2015

      Work Hard, Work Harder!

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Enticing culture which attempts to strike a healthy balance between Work Hard and Play Hard.

      Cons

      Play Hard cultural events are a nice feature, but not worth substandard pay levels, severely limited resources and unrealistic work performance expectations. HR function is a complete joke at this company (unprofessional and incompetent with no independent thinking or influence).

      2.0
      May 1, 2025

      Good job, Poor Upper Management, Poor company outlook

      Sales engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      My team is great, my manager is as transparent as they can be (Usually they also don't know what's going on though) and they are fun to work with. A lot of travel, but you pick your schedule for sales calls so its up to you on how much you're willing to travel.

      Cons

      Upper level management SUCKS. They are constantly redoing decisions, going back on their word, and just being bad at their jobs. A lot of senior employees leave due to poor decisions and the upper managers don't even seem sorry about it. I've been warned several times to jump ship while I can. GOOD NEWS: Its easy to deal with though! I take every decision they make with a grain of salt. Usually I just ignore their decisions because a month later they change their minds. I just do what my job description says. At the end of the day my managers seem happy with my performance.

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