Pretty good - Senior Software Developer Protolabs Employee Review

4.0
Jun 20, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Healthy supportive friendly attitude from leadership. People are generally pretty great to work with and there's a lot of collaboration. Quite software-focused despite manufacturing being its end product. Moving around the company is encouraged. Lots of smart folks. Lots of solvable problems to sharpen your wits against and types of software to get experience with/learn from. It feels like a pretty safe and promising company to work for if you can get established.

Cons

PTO could be better. Compensation seems okay, but the math they use for raises doesn't track consistently. Bonuses are kind of lackluster. Seniority seems to matter more than individual ability in a number of ways. A lot of the software problems are really fairly mundane/fundamental, but developers have tried to "reinvent the wheel" over the years so they seem more complicated than they necessarily have to be (this might not be a "Con" for everyone).

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5.0
May 5, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great culture and feel. Best job in my career so far

Cons

The pay could be a bit more competitive

1.0
Mar 31, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Used to be great company with great culture and flexibility

Cons

New CEO Surresh has come in and completely destroyed the company culture that made Protolabs a great place to work at and was often awarded as such. Every meeting is coated in anxiety and the impending doom of layoffs despite record profits. In January a RTO was announced and there has been no flexibility and a straight up refusal to provide ADA accommodations to disabled employees by the HR department. They have taken away the flexibility that they used to provide to working parents that allowed them to work in office after/before their kids go to school despite not paying a living wage that would allow them to afford additional childcare. They have also chosen to make it even more difficult for employees to even receive a meets standards on their reviews as a cruel attempt to ensure they don’t have to give reasonable raises (which are rarely above 3% as is and they don’t provide market adjustments.) It’s unrecognizable from the company it used to be. They underpay, overwork, and expect the world of their employees while refusing to treat them with respect.

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