employer cover photo
employer logo
employer logo

Applied Optoelectronics

Engaged Employer

Applied Optoelectronics reviews

1.9

18% would recommend to a friend

(115 total reviews)
avatar

Thompson Lin

3% approve of CEO

22% positive business outlook

Applied Optoelectronics has an employee rating of 1.9 out of 5 stars, based on 115 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a poor working experience there. The Applied Optoelectronics employee rating is 45% below average for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

Reviews by job title

115 reviews
1.0
Jul 16, 2026

A lesson in remembering your own self worth

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Growing industry, the Sugar Land headquarters is a nice facility.

Cons

The organization does not position itself as caring about the individual development of its individual people they need in order to stay around. The company is exclusively focused on the growth of the organization and meeting a staffing headcount, that it completely disregards the value of putting its actual people first. Then leadership has the audacity to wonder why the attrition is so high, especially from the non exempt departments. People will not stay here and deal with condescending leadership, passive aggressive or not, and inequitable pay for long hours and work task well above the titles you insist on keeping them in. Lack of a nepotism clause, lack of leadership or any real change initiatives, inequitable pay, condescending leadership, treatment of non exempt employees as a second class workforce.

Viewing 1 - 3 of 115 Reviews

Glassdoor has 121 Applied Optoelectronics reviews submitted anonymously by Applied Optoelectronics employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Applied Optoelectronics is right for you.