Optics 1 reviews

3.1

63% would recommend to a friend

(27 total reviews)

Bob Lachance

100% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Optics 1 has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 27 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Optics 1 employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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27 reviews
5.0
Sep 4, 2019

Growing Company with lot's of opportunity.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company is growing and with that has a lot of opportunity for those who are looking for a place to make an impact. If you are the kind of person who likes to work on a variety of projects then this is a great place to work. If you are the type that is looking to hide in your cube unnoticed and just skate by keep looking, you are not going to be happy at Optics 1. The company is full of really great, hard working people who believe in the products they build. You may see some negative reviews on here but I can tell you that most of those are in fact false and the people were just not a good fit for the culture or didn't get an offer so they decided to post.

Cons

I have never worked for a perfect company nor do I know anyone who has. All companies have something that not every employee will like or agree with, but that is what I would consider normal. Could some things be improved upon of course, but I think the management as a whole is doing a great job and is working to improve areas of concern brought to them by employee's

1.0
Nov 27, 2018

Stay away

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Pros

You get a paycheck

Cons

terrible management they will not take responsibility for anything they just pass the buck. Build procedures are not correct but they will not allow them to be changed. Not enough tools/equipment to finish and test builds in a timely manner. They want more units built in a month that is impossible to do, they would know that if they did a time study. You can work a 12 hour day and they would ask you why you are leaving so early, they just want more and more and more. If you work yourself silly to hit the numbers for the month they want even more the next month. Employees have to skip steps to be able to get things done. They will knowingly send out units that do not work just to say they hit their numbers. They are all about pleasing and giving more and more money to stockholders, the customer comes next and as an employee you are just a number. They started a moral committee, not to find out why moral is so low but to do things like have an ice cream party by comparison it would be like being in an abusive relationship and staying in it because the person buys you a gift once a month. They choose group leaders that have only worked their a short time and they have no clue how to build anything or even tell you one part from another. They run out of parts to do a build and it ends up being the fault of the people building them. I could go on and on with the cons but you get the idea.

5.0
Jul 18, 2018

Current Employee, Best Management Team I have worked with. Great Products

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Optics 1 has a great management team. They allow and trust you to do your job. The leadership team is highly competent and just a bunch of really good people that care about the people they work with. Optics 1 has great technology and I am proud of the products we make and that our products make a difference for the warfighter. Since I have been here I have seen a good number of my hard working peers be promoted to higher level positions. If you work hard at this company, you are noticed and appreciated. Competitive pay and benefits (for the most part)

Cons

This isn't really a con, but the company has had a lot of success so you are always busy. Sometimes hard to get things done because everyone is so busy. Certain benefits could be better and more competitive with other companies in the industry. (Paternity/Maternity)

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