ASML reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(3,084 total reviews)
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Christophe Fouquet

75% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

ASML has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,084 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The ASML employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jul 27, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Get to work with Bleeding Edge Technology. Opportunity to travel if you want it (World Wide). Some flexibility in working hours. Good Time off + separate Sick Time banks. Decent but dwindling rapidly benefits. (Currently rated average within industry). If you stick it out long enough, decent salary's are possible.

Cons

Zero opportunity for growth unless you are well connected. ASML doesn't hire based on skill or qualifications, and leadership roles are even worse in regards to this. Its all about who you know to get ahead. Job postings in the US are typically filled before they even land, and other candidates are almost never considered. The service group is treated like a burden by cooperate office, while at the same time is the bread-and butter of ASML. Customers are screaming for better/more support and VHV isn't listening. Leadership is a major issue within ASML. The wrong people are consistently hired because they "are due" or "its their time". Again, talent is rarely a consideration for these roles and it reflects strongly in the way the organization is ran. In regards to this, as another poster mentioned, ""if you are good at what you do, good luck getting into something new"". Its easy to see why this happens as when people want to move on to something new, the spot they leave is rarely re-opened. This typically leaves a hole in the organization (depending on engineer) that will never get filled, as the job is not re-posted. This in turn drives management to push heavily against personal development and growth, further demotivating employee's. As an Engineer who has worked in three different regions + visited many many more, I can say this isn't a situation that isn't unique to one locale, but more of a cultural issue within the company.

1.0
Feb 21, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Compensation and benefit are just ok. I like the product the company is working on, there are lots of smart people doing great works. The stock has been rising with the AI frenzy which benefit all the employee a little. The european part and the sites in San Diego and Wilton seem to be well managed.

Cons

The San Jose site is not well managed, People got promoted to manager not for management skills but for the length of stay in the company or Guanxi. Tall hierarchy and small groups with only 2 or 3 people and make work very inefficient. Managers in general don't know how to motivate or protect their employee but just try to get them overloaded to make the upper managers happy. The culture here is also getting closer to a Chinese company that values hustling and work overtime since the previous site director left.

2.0
Mar 23, 2019

Organized Chaos

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Compressed Schedule = longer weekends. Pay is adequate. Decent but not great benefits.

Cons

- Organization is a mess. - Middle Management is mostly incompetent with a few exceptions but those same incompetent managers seems to climb the ranks regardless of how poorly they do their job. - Pay is decent at first, but raises are very inadequate to keep up with inflation and cost of living, especially in Hillsboro where it is very expensive to live. - Lots of micromanagement

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