Does Applied Optoelectronics pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Applied Optoelectronics employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Applied Optoelectronics. This rating has decreased by 25% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Applied Optoelectronics?

18% of Applied Optoelectronics employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Applied Optoelectronics 2.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.1 for culture and values and 2.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Applied Optoelectronics?

Engineer (15) , Process Engineer (8) , Manufacturing Engineer (5) , Technician (3) , Operator (2) , Production Engineer (2) , Professional (2) , Wafer Process Engineer (2) , Wafer Process Technician (2)

What are the pros of working at Applied Optoelectronics according to real employee reviews?

"Great benefits" ((in 11 reviews)); "Nice people and nice neighborhood" ((in 6 reviews)); "Excellent coworkers to work with." ((in 5 reviews)); "Good job security." ((in 3 reviews)); "Great learning opportunities in this company" ((in 2 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Applied Optoelectronics according to real employee reviews?

"The production leadership in particular contributed to a toxic culture." ((in 9 reviews)); "Low pay" ((in 8 reviews)); "Not to mention the manager just have the credit and took no responsibility for any decisions, he himself wants engineers to make final decisions, if bad things happen, he takes no responsibility at all." ((in 4 reviews)); "Cultural or ethnic diversity in a professional role and management is nonexistent." ((in 3 reviews)); "Work/life balance can be a challenge at times but that should be expected at a fast paced company that plays in high growth markets." ((in 3 reviews))

What are the top reviewed Applied Optoelectronics locations?

Sugar Land , Houston , New York , Atlanta

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1.0

Jul 2, 2019

Anonymous employee

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Good people to work with.

Cons

The problem is the management. It seems that they don’t know what they are doing. They ask you to provide the data, which they never take a look or don’t know how to read and/or how to use it. They assign projects that are not part of your job description with unreasonable timelines (for example, the project may take to complete in several months, but they ask you to finish in a couple of days instead.) They tend to hire Chinese people with PhD who needs working visa to stay in United States so that they can control them.

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5.0

Dec 14, 2025

Analyst

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A lol company that brings you nightmare?

Cons

A company that makes you pick a mental health insurance

1.0

Jul 16, 2026

Anonymous employee

Recommend

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Pros

Growing industry, the Sugar Land headquarters is a nice facility.

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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