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4.0

83% would recommend to a friend

(44 total reviews)

Jon Zuo

84% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Advanced Cooling Technologies has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 44 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Advanced Cooling Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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44 reviews
5.0
May 18, 2024

Good culture and a great place to grow

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Pros

ACT offers a positive work culture and a non-toxic environment. The company is growing rapidly. Employees have the opportunity to work on various projects covering a wide range of topics and enjoy the independence to pursue their intellectual curiosity. The management is flexible with work-from-home or hybrid options, provided there is good communication. The Lead Engineers and technicians are knowledgeable and helpful, and colleagues routinely assist with projects. I highly recommend ACT to recent graduates, particularly those with PhDs. Recent PhD graduates can thrive and gain practical engineering experience here. You'll learn how to write proposals and execute projects effectively. The R&D division is primarily funded through DOE and NASA SBIR/STTR programs, so as an R&D engineer, your performance is largely judged by your ability to secure funding after you've established yourself in the company. Good benefits aswell.

Cons

There are days, especially before proposal submission deadlines when work-life balance is thrown off. The technicians are a bit understaffed. The major con is that the pay is quite low.

4.0
Apr 8, 2024
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Pros

Significant intellectual freedom to work on all kinds of engineering problems that is reflected in the breadth of the past and current work. Beyond expanding the technological horizons, the job offers a truly unique opportunity to learn proposal/grant writing, project management (including financial/budgetary management), etc.

Cons

It is hard to deny that the pay is on the lower side of the spectrum, especially with the recent inflation. Also, the job requires flexibility to work long hours before critical deadlines (such as a proposal deadline), but it balances out in the long term, i.e., flexibility to do fewer hours later as compensation.

1.0
Feb 24, 2024
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Pros

I got to know many young and successful college graduates starting their careers here but left for better work environment, personal growth, monetary advantages

Cons

With the swift changes in the space industry including the recent rounds of layoffs at NASA JPL, Maxar Technologies, etc. Advanced Cooling Technologies has begun to come to its knees with future sells and fundings insecure and muddy. Traditionally, this small business in Lancaster, PA is always understaff with minimal employee salary and benefit. So I don’t know what surprises the future would hold for us during this uncertain times. Even without this unusual space business shift, we weren’t able to bid on many government proposal solicitations as a result of our extremely high overhead > 100% and heat pipe technology stalls. We usually collaborate with university professors with cheap graduate labor cost. On most of projects, while we need and appreciate working with well-known researchers and professors, we can’t offer them more than 10K from budget which some who run their labs with several million dollars per year, would find it very insulating and never responds back to our poor engineering staffs. We had multiple major fights with our academic collaborators and business professionals over fund allocations, resulted in them leaving the contract and alienating. The company product-portfolio is stalled due to extreme cost of automation. All of our manufacturing technicians are still doing handy jobs like 1940s such as cutting pipes and sheets, soldering, welding and brazing pipes with porous wraps … With business revenue considerably declining and frugal expenditures, the company has come to a point where we have only 2 SOLIDWORKS and 1 Ansys licenses up for over 70ish engineers in PD and R&D, which further delays our deliverables.

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