Smith Optics reviews

Most hourly workers are paid 15-20% above minimum wage, which is about 30% BELOW a living wage for their location. Even some department managers are not paid a living wage. Everyone here has a weird job or a dual income family. It's ridiculous for a company that takes so much pride in their company culture. But we're afraid to complain for fear of losing our jobs or worse, having them move operations to somewhere cheaper. Once again, workers get screwed while stockholders get paid. I wish the executives cared, but they only want to see smiles and nods and are not at all open to real worker feedback. They shrivel and harden at any negative feedback.

The entire leadership team is a joke that has no idea what they're doing. The only reason this company does as well as they do is because the leadership team knows how to hire the type of employees that they know are hard working dedicated people that they then proceed to burnout so that they can beat the previous quarter/years sales growth. Setting unattainable goals that you can never reach and setting their employees up for failure so that they don't have to ever pay out for it. In a downturning economy that's heading for a recession, they are expecting double digit growth and they don't care what that will do to the people trying to make it happen. The worst part about the leadership team is that they don't see the potential in their employees to grow the company for them and instead dictate downward.