Cognex reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(478 total reviews)
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Matt Moschner

62% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Cognex has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 478 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cognex 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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478 reviews
3.0
Oct 30, 2025

Lowest pay in industry. Low PTO

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CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good direct management on smaller teams

Cons

The executive suite shows a clear lack of empathy. Employees are being squeezed with lower PTO rollover amounts, a low starting PTO, and no realistic path to increase it. Compounding this, pay across all fields is well below industry standards—in fact, insulting for the Boston area—yet the company wonders why turnover is high. Each year, they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars training new employees, which is a predictable outcome of underpaying staff. To add insult to injury, the company recently shifted from a personal expense system for travel to a corporate credit card, eliminating employees’ ability to earn cashback points. As costs of living rise and work becomes more challenging, this approach demonstrates how little the company values its employees, all while expecting staff to buy into their corporate culture.

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