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Growth opportunities/promotions are given to people on morning shift more than people on nightshift. Those on night shifts are more likely to be ignored and are given significantly less promotions and opportunities for growth. If someone on nights wants a promotion, then they must work significantly harder than anyone on day shift, and hope for the best. There is also a divide between the day shift  and night shift staff, many do not see the hard work the other shifts put in; and assume they are lazy and blame them for not getting stuff done effectively and efficiently. 

I’ve felt uncomfortable coming into work, knowing that there are people, who are not management, watching my every move. They wait for anyone to make a mistake or anything out of line; so that they can inform the supervisors/management to make themselves look better. They act friendly, but will find a way to take you down. Many others also don’t feel comfortable coming into work, stating that they were being threatened by their management for speaking up. 

Some people are asked to work ridiculous hours; 10+ hours a day and well over 7 days before a break. To help with the constant turn over of staff and backlog of parts needed. These people are hardly ever given acknowledgment or thanks.

Most of the remaining staff do not know whether to stay or leave. 

The pay is mediocre, what they offer on hiring websites is more than current employees, who have worked here for years, are being paid. Don’t expect to be given much more come review time, and for years after. 

Hr does not care about anyone but themselves and upper management. If you’ve had a traumatic event happen, need time off or need to talk to HR, you will be given an unapologetic, unsympathetic, plain, and unhelpful responses.  

No matter how much employees at the company speak up, NOTHING will change. Those who do, are punished and continuously targeted, threatened and singled out. Employees only feel safe to speak out when they can remain anonymous. Management wants people to identify themselves and then talk, so then they know who to get rid of. The higher ups don’t care about the lower workers. They have the feed back, but will do nothing with it, and act like they don’t know what’s wrong and why so many people leave. Suggestions for improvement fall on deaf ears, continuous improvement attempts made were received with negative comments. And they never have gosh darn bandaids, it took months and over 10 requests to get more bandaids put into first aid kits. 

There are genuinely great, hard working people working at this company. The coworkers and supervisors who have your back, are the ones worth staying for.  It’s a shame to see them be squashed and mistreated so much. 

If you want to learn about the machines we work with, and get a basic understanding of optical sciences, it’s a good starting point, but terrible long term. Once you get your foot in the door, there are plenty of better paying, similar jobs near by to apply too. 

These issues are only the tip of the iceberg, there are other problems with different departments and managers.



The supervisors don't know the basic job duties of the employees they supervise.
The supervisors don't actually go on the floor and see their employees hands-on.
Supervisors are doing yearly reviews and have no feedback at all to give to an employee to help them succeed.
When you ask for help its often ignored.
When you don't ask for help you're told to ask for help more.
Training is a disorganized mess.
Company culture encourages complacency and laziness - the more you know the more you are asked to do, and at no extra pay or benefit to yourself.
Complaints fall on deaf ears from management and HR.
Pay is not commensurate with knowledge and experience and competitors.
The Suggestion box, installed January of 2022, has gotten more results in terms of continuous improvement and work conditions being fixed/elevated, than any direct or indirect requests and complaints to supervisors, management, or HR.
They do not promote people from within when they deserve it.
New Hires get hired on for more pay than people that have worked here 15+ years will be making, the raises are once a year, and not guaranteed, and NOT keeping up with CoL changes or inflation or any of that. Employees (plural) were given a 0.00007% raise and expected to be happy.
Attrition rate company wide is 30% of new hires are gone within one month.

The management doesn't even bother to take serious about what the employees feedback to them. Doesn't appreciate what we done for so many years. Treat employee with no respect. 
All the Management, Manager, Superior, Leader are worst. Don't even try to understand their employee need. Racist inside this company. 
Engineer always playing with their handphone when the operator feedback there is something wrong with machine or process. 
Very political company. If they don't like you they will try to destroy your reputation and career. Treating their employee terrible. 
No real life work balance. Forcing employee to OT during public holiday x1 paid. Superior forcing employee to resign when employee done nothing wrong. Threaten employee if they didn't want OT, warning letter will be given. 
Normally get promoted is those who is not qualified, no education, no certificate. People succeed by being the "Yes-Man".
Hope MOM will investigate this company. Too many hidden activity.
Employee are too scare to voice out. Benefit in this company are worst. 
Many people who go out from this company normally told their friend to avoid this company as far as possible. I also won't recommend my friend to work at here.

Very caring and supportive management 
Pay is fair for the field
Can listen to music
You can sit down, no standing needed

MICROSCOPES: We use a lot of microscopes for everything.

You come in, sit down and work, sometimes you can come in late and they wont give you a super hard time about it as long as you stay a bit late. I have worked both shifts and the work is the same but the environments are complete opposites. 1st shift feels almost rushed and management is a bit more down your neck *Like most workplaces* and I feel less connected with my managers and co workers. 2nd shift however is very relaxed and effective. Work environment, people lift each other up and it is very comfortable. I feel like I can work in peace. This is the most forgiving and caring job ive had, they are very patient training and I do not feel incredibly stressed. Again, this is second shift in the 2nd floor clean room. Everywhere else I cannot speak on as I havent worked in there. 

I have worked for Excelitas for years after they acquired their Boulder site, Formerly Called Research-Electro Optics. 

Pretty relaxed atmosphere considering the budget the work requires, really expensive work being done but if you know what your doing it's not that high pressure. Old-hat middle management and below are good people but new company management and recent promotions have made waves. People have left the company recently due to management decisions. 

To sum up, old-hat coworkers with a steady stream of new hires going thru their first paces in production work. Lower and middle management are mostly promoted from within so beware of office politics and clicks. Upper management has made huge investments which signals great expectations, but none of those investments had an increase in salary during the greatest rate of inflation we are likely to see in our lives.

I think I have gotten the general feel of this place down.

I’ve worked here for the last two years. Throughout my time here I’ve learned that this is a place where you either “get in line” with people that have been there or they’ll make your life miserable lol. If you have anywhere else you can go besides here, please do. They’re hired over 15-20 techs in the 2 years I’ve been here so just consider that. Upper management gaslights. I had several conversations with management about things just to go back and find an email chain where he was doing the exact opposite of what he was telling me. And when I turned around a brought up concerns no one cared haha. When you get hired asked them how many people have had your position in the last 3-5 years. You’d be shocked. It’s  extremely dysfunctional. Also they have 0 work and it’s clear the company is going way down 

I learned a lot about semiconductors from electronic theories to optic theories. I had learn a lot of manufacturing concepts in design, process and quality including the actual implementation of six sigma. The management values the employees; and my co-workers are all hard-working and friendly. My hardest part of the job is probably troubleshooting testers that the manufacturer developed but at the same time it is also the most enjoyable because that was where I gained most of my experience that trained my attention to details, perseverance and problem solving skills.

Excelitas's mission and goals to help protect troops was a great calling for me to this company. The work done at this site is both enjoyable and rewarding knowing it's going to help our country. Unfortunately, the work culture there is very hostile. Many of the workers there engage in a kindergarten attitude and like to spread rumors and harass other coworker. Management and HR seem to do little in caring or trying to understand the issue. They want to adjudicate from the comfort of there desk. This causes a split between workers on the floor and management. I hope this issue changes because at the end of the day we should be working for the same end goal.

Good opportunity to learn and I was frequently challenged and given stretch goals.  Good culture of quality and the entire business cares about the products and has a high level of integrity.  Good work life balance in general, and workplace flexibility.

Management is stuck in an antiquated way of thinking and is trying to run the place using the same philosophy of the failed Delphi.  Leadership is not open to change and gets defensive when given any feedback or outside suggestions.  Every time there is a problem they always point fingers instead of trying to actually address the root cause. 

Minimal opportunities for career growth, put your head down and do what you're told.

Run as far away from this company as possible.  The culture is horrible, very complicated scope of work because there is no documentation or procedures whatsoever.  The employees and managers are not friendly nor helpful at all.  The culture is horrible nobody wants to be there.  The work environment looks like a decrepit run down abandoned office.  The outside of the building is fine but your work area will be broken down and rusted, dirty and disgusting.  Anybody can do better!

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