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Element Materials Technology

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Pretty good company - but doesn't live up to its aspirations - Anonymous employee Element Materials Technology Employee Review

4.0
Apr 22, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Element is one of the better companies I've worked for, with a mostly fair and knowledgeable management team and a decent ethos. There is no pettiness and if you work hard and achieve your objectives you will be treated well. I find the salary and bonuses to be reasonable. Most of my colleagues are good people, who aren't all out for themselves, and I've made some good friends here.

Cons

To truly live up to its mantra of being the biggest and most trusted lab in the world, Element needs to adjust its approach to its employees. Employees aren't treated unfairly, but Element does not go the extra mile for them. The truly successful big companies, such as Google and Apple, have a much more relaxed and liberal workplace, with many more perks, and this is the sort of approach that Element needs to adopt to be ranked among them.

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Cons

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Pros

Good starting salary, interesting work, sometimes possible to earn a decent bonus. Some people who work there are very nice, some camaraderie.

Cons

Toxic team energy, poor and even toxic management, constantly changing management team and expectations, no long term strategy, no clear or attainable path to career advancement, no job specific training, high expectations, bonus structure changes often so once you earn good money it will go away, tend to overload existing employees instead of hiring enough people, “boys club” on some levels (lots of favoritism). My job basically got switched the minute I started to include way more responsibilities. Diversity initiatives, but in practice I felt there was still discrimination. Bit of a revolving door, did not seem to be much value placed on retention. Individual sites basically compete against each other, you could be doing well or have a good idea and they may still give the opportunity to someone else across the company. Overall didn’t seem like anyone (even my own team) really cared that I worked there.

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