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Element Materials Technology

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Good place to gain experience, and then move on to a better company with better salary - Supervisor Element Materials Technology Employee Review

3.0
Oct 28, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting work, cool projects and machines, generally nice and smart coworkers

Cons

The people running the company are based in England, and very disconnected from lab level workers in different countries where labs are located. Benefits are not great, 401k matching is just okay, and pay is low for the type of work being done. Bonuses or profit-sharing are basically non-existent with impossible targets that keep changing. Top management (outside of lab level) wastes a lot of money traveling and having fancy meetings, yet proper investments are not made in facilities or equipment, and definitely not on worker salaries. HR seems to be spread thin, and a lot of times does not seem to know what they're doing. They favor the company and are not on the employee's side. Element recently acquired Exova a competitor, and management has been secretive about what changes will be made.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
May 7, 2026
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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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