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Element Materials Technology reviews

3.1

42% would recommend to a friend

(953 total reviews)
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Jo Wetz

51% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Element Materials Technology has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 953 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Element Materials Technology employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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953 reviews
1.0
May 24, 2018

All about, and ONLY about the MONEY!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The work can sometimes be interesting. Generally colleagues are good people.

Cons

Where do I start?! Element, despite the nonesense about wanting to be the best, most trusted etc etc, don't really give a damn about their own buzzphrases. It's ALL, and I mean ALL about money. In the last few years, there has been zero investment in the tools for the job, new equipment, or maintaining equipment they already have. People leave and are not replaced, leading to drop in morale in the remaining staff due to increased pressure. Formal training is non-existent, or ad-hoc when the overworked subject matter experts have a chance, which isn't very often, so generally new or inexperienced engineers are put on jobs they are not ready for. A lot of people are employed to measure the performance of others, which costs time which the people at the coal face don't have. All it measures is a reduction in performance due to lack of time, people and working equipment.

2.0
May 23, 2018
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Pros

Co Workers, multiple locations with different capabilities for customer needs, quickly growing company, invests a lot in marketing materials and media

Cons

Low pay, minimal promotions, revolving-door employment, low commitment to employees, little investment back into the labs and equipment, not committed to employee growth

1.0
May 20, 2018
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Pros

Free doughnuts and bagels on payday

Cons

Management is more concerned with buying all of our competition than doing good testing. They reward chasing short-term numbers at the expense of long-term profitability. They don't make the capital investments necessary to improve the quality of our tests. The facility I worked at had primarily custom-built test frames that were always going down and often produced questionable data. Literally two people in the building knew how they worked, and when they retire in two years the entire facility will be SOL.

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