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      Cognex

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      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

      Ratings by demographic groups

      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
      2.0
      Mar 10, 2020

      Interesting company culture encompassing a huge mess

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      - motivating company culture - many outdoor activities - working with multiple teams in different countries on projects

      Cons

      - outdoor activities in germany include tons of alcohol - over self-gratification: all products are always the best in the world on an organisation level announcement, reality is quite different. - low salaries compared to job market - job safety is a major concern in some offices -Documentation is a nightmare, goodluck tracing something someone did a month ago

      1.0
      Feb 4, 2026

      Very bad software for hardware team

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexible in terms of work hours

      Cons

      Racism Micro management Not giving ownership of the tasks Do not allow to get in touch with the clients No proper feedback system

      3.0
      Feb 27, 2023

      Cognoids are robots?!

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There are kind people. Some project uses up-to-date technical stack. Office is in the center of Budapest.

      Cons

      Cognex are led by sales and marketing, so they make product related decisions without any knowledge. As you are a developer, it will hurt you. Too many older collegues, that means that the salary is really bad, since only interns and juniors came. Cognex wants to keep you in the company with RSU, so the youngers will leave before RSU would take effect. So the older employees are binded to the company with RSUs. Employees have to get into the office 3 times a week, so 2 days can be home office. It was communicated to employees as reason for the HO restrictions: 'culture'

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