KUKA reviews

Incompetent would be too kind of a word for the management of KUKA. Here are just a few examples; many have been omitted, simply because I have already wasted too much of my life on these people. Pre-pandemic, notable failures of KUKA include inventing/pioneering cooperative robotics (co-bots, for short), and promptly losing the entire market share to a start up robotics company. Their incompetence continued to be displayed when, during the COVID pandemic, they shut down the Austin office (the office they admitted had the most software expertise in the entire company), and moved the entire IoT engineering project back to Germany, as well as to China. This quickly tanked their entire IoT effort -- I still get messages from engineers who found my email in the git logs asking for my help fixing their platform, losing all the goodwill from KUKA customers that we slowly built. To add insult to injury, they laid off the entire Austin staff during the COVID pandemic, but made sure to add that "COVID was not a factor in their decision", thus preventing their former employees from collecting federal relief funds. This company is cruel to its employees, wildly incompetent, and it would be frankly astounding if they continue to be in business five years down the road.

Management was totally out of line sometimes. Make you feel like you are beneath them. I've been repeatedly told to do things one way and then come to find out I have to do things another way, which totally contradicts any and all things.