Great place - Associate Applications Developer FEI Systems Employee Review

5.0
Sep 17, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

As a developer, I found the reviews for this company difficult to parse before getting hired. I can't speak to all the other departments, but this is basically my dream job. There's always work to do but the stress level is low. The tech is a little dated, (expected in an older and well-established product) but it's very well written and maintained. There are no regularly scheduled waste-of-time-meetings. The work here helps people that make a difference and makes me feel valuable. I've never received any external pressure to work late. They even wrote my job offer with a higher salary than my asking price. The best part of the job is the people. Everyone I work with is nice, responsive, helpful, and professional. I'd recommend that every developer that reads this try their best, but nobody ever quits so there aren't too many openings. That's also probably why there are so few (recent) perspectives from developers here. Not that I'm an expert, but everyone in QA seems happy too. I work remotely so I can't speak to office culture or other areas that don't interact directly with dev.

Cons

None so far. There's a five word minimum here, so I'll pad this field by wishing everyone that applies here the best of luck. :)

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5.0
Oct 17, 2024
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Pros

It's very stable here. With a lot of opportunity to grow.

Cons

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3.0
May 27, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Solid pay for experience - Mostly friendly team, including most co-workers and supervisors - Good health insurance options - Fully remote - Company paid for the work computer - Minor perks like "points" in the company store, which had some cute items - Big picture work was meaningful

Cons

- Disorganized training and unclear / contradictory instructions at times - Challenging to get in contact with certain people who have information necessary to do the job. - Communication overall could be much clearer. - Information storage was disorganized. - Small scale, an entire day's work on a section of a proposal could be pointless, entirely thrown out. -- Sometimes this was because the original instructions on how to fill out the section were outdated or incomplete. -- In other cases, the assignment turned out to be redundant. -- At least twice in my tenure of just under a year, the team spent over a week on a proposal, only to be told to scrap the whole thing because the company didn't want to bid on it after all. --- Over time this became pretty demoralizing, at least to me. - One or two highly stressful coworkers / supervisors could create conflict that created a bad "vibe" for the whole day (or week!) - Company prioritized shallow means of boosting morale (cookie party, etc) over doing the time-consuming work to truly improve it. --- That is, no one seemed to be taking the time to figure out what systems or which individuals were the frequent source of conflict / demoralization, and address those with real solutions. Unfortunately, the negative experiences with communication and high-stress team members / leaders led me to leave. Ultimately, I took a writing job at a different company that paid less but had a better team atmosphere. It was worth it. Note: For all I know this may be fixed now. Per LinkedIn, many of the people I worked with (both competent, easygoing people and high-conflict stress-adders) seem to have moved on. So, perhaps the culture has changed positively. You'd probably have to ask someone who's worked there more recently, though.

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