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Applied Optoelectronics

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Incompetent management and toxic culture - Anonymous employee Applied Optoelectronics Employee Review

1.0
Mar 7, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Trying to come up some but unable to

Cons

Incompetent management and toxic culture. Authoritarian management style with a strict caste system. Remember that your bosses are always right no matter how ignorant they are. If you are a new or lower rank employee, remember to keep your mouth shut. Otherwise you may be fired. Management don't solve problems but often get rid of the people who uncover the issue. If they have to pick somebody to blame, it is usually the employee with the lowest rank and fewest pay. Employees are generlaly underpaid and overworked. However, they are not rewarded based performance but by relationship. Don't expect promotion if you are not a Taiwanese or asslicker.There are good people but they either don't stay long or they don't get promoted.

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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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