Aerotech, Inc. reviews

Aerotech is a decent company, but the opportunities for career advancement aren't great. In my experience, they do a poor job of recognizing and rewarding employees. This seems to be the case in most departments, and is reflected in the high turnover rate. The corporate policies are stringent and designed to reward employees that have been there for many years. Vacation is pretty terrible for the first 5 years. Wage increases and career advancement opportunities are based mostly on years of service. Performance is almost meaningless (unless you mess up significantly). Hard work is welcomed and encouraged, but not rewarded very well. The company is very conventional and maintains a strict hierarchy. The top-down management style is very discouraging and leaves little room for creativity or innovation.

There's a lot of cons to this company, most of which lie on management. - Absolutely the number one problem is the compensation. With bonuses and profit sharing, the CEO and executives make $1 million+ a year. And the people at the bottom, the people who produce the labor that keeps the company moving? They only get around $20,000 a year. This forces them to work EXTREME amounts of overtime. There are people who work 60 or more hours a week, something they need to do to pay their rent. How can someone live with themselves when their employees are one emergency away from homelessness?! - Another huge problem is the overall company culture. Lately, relations between departments has been very tense. People are blaming everyone for mistakes, it gets blown far too out of proportion, and spirals out of control. Everyone is mad at everyone. And what do the people at the top do, do they try to ease these tensions? No. They ignore, and in some cases even support this hostility, for no reason besides being cutthroat. This is not how you treat your employees, or run a business. - The company is inefficient. And this is again, a problem with the management. An example is the new SMT line. It's a machine that mounts parts to circuit boards, and it only runs at about 25-30% efficiency, compared to other companies that are in the 75-90% range. The unwillingness from the people at the top to invest money or effort into the company is obvious. They also seem to not care that the program the vast majority of the company uses to complete their work is buggy and hardly works. A significant amount of time is committed to the workers fixing this problem that shouldn't be there in the first place. They just seem to not care about vital issues.