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Applied Optoelectronics

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1.0
Jun 4, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Decent and clean work place.

Cons

Rude Asian leaders. They just give you commands with no respect. They tease and insult you when you give some suggestions, if you don't have any title there. The management there built the worst culture I never seen from anywhere else. Employees there are hard to get along with. Superficially everybody looks friendly or at least good. Later on you will find the horrible truth. Your teammates bad mouth you all the time. I was not a fresh graduate and I knew politics is everywhere. However, I was still sad when I saw my colleagues didn't care about their work very much but only care about how to step on you...

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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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