Smokes and mirrors. Don't fall for their false promises. You've been warned!!! - Anonymous employee Carbon Employee Review

1.0
Feb 17, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Cool tech - Subsidized lunch - Fun holiday parties

Cons

- Management speaks in generalities and hypes up all the possibilities, but doesn't translate into action for employees - Management doesn't act on feedback. Rather ignore it and hope it goes away - Little to no investment in employee career growth - Fast turnover, I've heard of at least 3 people that left within 9 months - Some teams are stretched super thin while others are idle - Unclear R&Rs. Teams often ask what each other are doing and what they were hired for. - Annual cash bonus only applies to Directors and above - Doesn't back up their "values". No exit interview or showing they care once you give notice. They just disregard you. - Need to convince customers of functional value of addictive manufacturing. Depending on the application, this can be straightforward or an uphill battle. - Need to be cost competitive with more traditional manufacturing methods. - Strongly suggest to get a tour of the printing and post processing process. From there, you decide for yourself on the growth prospects. Don't just take their word for it.

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5.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Pros

good work life balance and smart people

Cons

frustrating lack of strategy sometimes

2.0
May 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Back in the day, Carbon was an awesome place to work with great talent. They had recruited an amazing team, and built some really cool products.

Cons

There is no bright future ahead for Carbon. They are simply in way too small, way too competitive, no growth markets and have tried for years and invested hundreds of millions (closer to a billion) to find better markets and simply cannot. Its a sad story more than anything else, as overtime there has been decent leadership, but they should have made a massive pivot into a completely different business - they had 700 million+ in funding, enough to reinvent the business 5 times over. The equity realistically is valued at 0, because companies in this space get ultra low valuation multiples (~1-2), especially if revenue has been flat or down for years (used to work in venture capital). Do not waste your time here any longer, thinking there is any way this will change. They missed the opportunity to sell at the peak of the bubble. Now there is too long an operating history to make the case the future will be different.

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