ASML reviews

work/life balance, more work than you can handle, demanding schedule, heavy emphasis on meetings, pretentious management. Management loves to judge your performance by metrics (which encourages gaming the system) but these metrics are not a fair assessment of an employees value. Every employee in my dept. can hit the metrics they establish, but unless you establish a good relationship with your manager (which is almost impossible given how poorly the company distributes people and by how many meetings you and your manager are in), its really hard to show your value outside these metrics. The work eventually becomes exhausting, repetitive, and soul sucking.

The overall compensation and benefits package is not competitive in comparison to other Bay Area companies. Poor work life balance. Many employees are forced to work evening and weekends for no extra compensation and very little recognition. This becomes challenging especially for employees with families and children. No active programs, benefits or policies exist that promotes a healthy work and life balance. Top-Down old school management. The majority of all decisions are made in the Netherlands. USA and other regions are not involved or influential enough to be part of the decision making process. Several manager and director positions outside of the Netherlands are very often ceremonial positions with no real influence. Opportunities to learn and grow are very limited. It is almost impossible to excel in your role or to get promoted. This affects productivity and morale and is causing a very high employee turnover. Toxic and cutthroat culture. Employees are not speaking up to suggest improvements due to retribution fears from management.