Good people, but tough company culture - Anonymous employee Entegris Employee Review

2.0
Jun 12, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Entegris has very interesting technologies and is growing and investing in technology development in the MA area, which is great for career growth and job security. The company is relatively small and has a diverse work force. The employees are friendly, hard working and dedicated.

Cons

The company culture creates a difficult environment to work in. They provide very little training and are very disorganized, which makes it hard to do your job. Half the battle is figuring out how to do a simple task. The culture does not support work-life balance. HR pushes their "honor system" vacation policy as being a great perk for employees, but the culture makes you feel guilty for using it. And since time off isn't tracked (for salaried employees), you don't have the benefit of earning time or being paid out if you don't (or can't) use it. Departments have a CYA mentality, which leads to the blame game and they lack a spirit of collaboration towards a common goal.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

1. Terrible leadership and management 2. Constant cost cutting without thinking about the ramifications 3. Continual acquisitions that don't get integrated properly before the next acquisition. This leads to a chaotic organization that is constantly changing. It also sparks a catastrophic clash of systems as Entegris tries to force everything into SAP in less than 12 months, regardless of the size of the company they have purchased. 4. This acquisition strategy makes the financial numbers look good when buying private companies because no one can evaluate the true synergies that were accomplished. All that is available is the picture after the acquisition, not before. But when they bought CMC, a public company, they clearly destroyed shareholder value that existed when the companies were valued separately.

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