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Applied Optoelectronics

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Very bad company - Anonymous employee Applied Optoelectronics Employee Review

1.0
Jun 6, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office building with good decoration

Cons

1) very rigid timing policy and no flexibility.You have to come at 9am and cannot leave before 6pm even if you come early. Most of the day managers call meeting at 5:30 which goes on until 7 . You need to come on weekends also and no compensation for that . 2) All the high tech companies has VPN and work from home options now a days except this one !! There is VPN but so complex way to get approval that you will probably never get it . 3) Work load is huge compared to money they pay . 4) Managers have no management capabilities 5) Performance review process is very bad .6) Senior experience people are not help ful and don’t want to share knowledge 7) The good review that are given here probably given by people who got some benefits from HR to get that 8) HR are very rude 9) No career growth

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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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