Cognex reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(477 total reviews)
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Matt Moschner

62% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Cognex has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 477 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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477 reviews
1.0
Sep 13, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Fun nice people and a lot of external activities with far too much alcohol.

Cons

Lack of direction. Bigger chaos I have ever seen and it was my 4th company I know all companies keep an eye on the competition but I had never been told to COPY a competitor before, which is a funny contradiction considering they are all time bragging about innovation. Basically whenever they don’t know what to do, like something as trivial as the loudness of a beeping sound or the brightness of light, they copy keyence, I honestly never seen something like this. Limited resources and unrealistic work performance expectations No training at all and poor guidance from managers People are obsess with individual success and having a patent under their name. Basically no team spirit at all and managers are proud of it for some reason. Tree people fired in a month, so watch your back (The chances of not passing the probation period are high)

1.0
Sep 28, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Healthcare, Pension, good products and development of products.

Cons

You'll be stabbed in the back by all you colleagues and managers. Everyone is looking after themselves, you are on your own.

4.0
Nov 20, 2016

Software Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fun environment, great middle management, flexible hours, great work-life balance, central location, financial stability, lots of off-site events, appreciation of hard individual work. Salary is good, though not the greatest around. The Budapest office is among the best places to work in the city at if you are not looking for continuous integration or the latest chic technologies and methods around. There are a lot of amazing people and great teams at the Budapest office. If you are looking for a fun, laid back environment, this is your place.

Cons

The company is getting more corporate every month. Cognex is not a software company but a hardware company and the software development suffers that; methods and tools are sometimes outdated, software engineers have little room for decision making or creativity and there's no product management. Money overrules innovation so you might need to reinvent the wheel for the 5th time and reimplement the same features again and again because that's the only thing salesforce is willing to sell. As with all big companies, a lot of depends which team are you in. You might be on a fun new project or you might end up maintaining horrible ancient code that the company is not willing to replace because of "reasons". You might work on small bugfix releases for years or you might work on 3-year long endless project or anything in-between. Unfortunately there are no travel opportunities for the average engineers, even though the company spreads around the globe.

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