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Applied Optoelectronics

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Horrible Performance Review System - Engineer Applied Optoelectronics Employee Review

3.0
May 12, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Lots to do, lots to learn, good for fresh graduates and fast learners

Cons

Very unprofessional performance review system, very UNFAIR ratings, if you rate yourself different from your boss, your final score will be greatly penalized. If you are lucky enough to rate yourself similar to your boss, HR will adjust your boss rating and you will get the same low score. Basically the HR and management are manipulating the ratings and promotions of employees. As a result, good employees pissed off every year every time when it came to review.

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Pros

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Cons

The organization does not position itself as caring about the individual development of its individual people they need in order to stay around. The company is exclusively focused on the growth of the organization and meeting a staffing headcount, that it completely disregards the value of putting its actual people first. Then leadership has the audacity to wonder why the attrition is so high, especially from the non exempt departments. People will not stay here and deal with condescending leadership, passive aggressive or not, and inequitable pay for long hours and work task well above the titles you insist on keeping them in. Lack of a nepotism clause, lack of leadership or any real change initiatives, inequitable pay, condescending leadership, treatment of non exempt employees as a second class workforce.

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