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Veeco Instruments

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Veeco Instruments Engineer reviews

2.9

47% would recommend to a friend

(16 total reviews)
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William J. Miller

31% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.0

Compensation and benefits

2.3

Career opportunities

2.0

Culture & values

2.0

Work/Life balance

1.9

Diversity & inclusion

1.9

Senior management

Engineer employees have rated Veeco Instruments with 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 16 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Engineer professionals have an average working experience there. Veeco Instruments is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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Reviews by job title

16 reviews
3.0
Nov 21, 2017

Corporate meddling is hurting the business

Engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Highly techincal, focused group in St. Paul are a joy to work with. The technology is exciting. The pace of work is great.

Cons

Corporate is trying to consolidate as many functions as possible to the detriment to the business as well as customer satisfaction. Sales, Service and Customer Fulfillment, and Human Resources have all been taken away from the business units and pulled into pooled resources. It has resulted in poorly trained Sales and Service people who do not know enough about St. Paul's product to adequately do the job. The customers are becoming increasingly frustrated with this setup.

4.0
Feb 26, 2017

Engineering - twenty years

Engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent work environment. A real "melting pot" of people from both Americas, Asia and Europe, people of both genders and of all ages, from the recently graduate to the "young person of... retirement age" who just won't retire, the company offers a large range of opportunities for many levels of skill and expertise. Good effort to minimize impact of volatile markets on work force by managing variable costs in design and development (via outside consulting) and in manufacturing (via contract manufacturing). Pretty good job security, especially for talented individuals with proven skills and expertise. Significant effort by management, even during most critical downturns of a volatile market, to identify alternate options, offer relocation and retrain people in order to keep such talent and skills inside the company. A very liberal and open approach to work activities in general, allowing everybody to express his or her personal opinion.

Cons

A tendency towards standardizing creative activities that might perhaps be excessive, with too numerous procedural forms to be followed. Such tendency, although good in theory, could lead quite often to an unnecessary volume of work with no value added.

1.0
Mar 31, 2014

"Stay away"

Engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The only good thing is that you may learn something about the tools. It may help you to get a job on the customer side, hopefully.

Cons

First of all, they don't have formal training even safety training. Too many layers in management, your manager screens information keeping you in the dark, therefore there is no way you get the bigger picture so that you don't have a way to innovate. Also on the other hand, all the credit is taken by your manager and when it is time to lay off people, you manager can get you out easily. This kind of culture kills all the creativity. That is also why they have a lot of projects, few of them are successful. They don't care about your career at all. When the stock market is screwed, it is time for you to move on. It is also a place racially divided. All the management do is acquiring. There is not much long-term new ideas.

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