"Culture" - Anonymous employee Formlabs Employee Review

2.0
May 3, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

products are good fits in terms of pricing and functionality for a lot of different industries, flexibility (obviously before the Return to Office mandate), free insurance

Cons

very little diversity (white men in almost all leadership roles), catering lunch 3x a week is not a substitute for paying your employees a living raise, you will get laughed at by management if you ask about cost-of-living , all discussions around payment are met with "the company needs the money more than you do", your commission plan isn't great and you're making ~1/2 the base of most sales roles at the same level, stock buy-in options are not the same as giving employees stock, return to office 3x a week for no reason other than it make management feel better about paying rent for the office, and the "culture" is more of a cult to make you stay at your desk longer

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Formlabs Response
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Thanks for your feedback, especially the recognition that we are product focused. Developing great products that will fit into the widest scope of our customer needs is the foundation that our business is built on. Regarding diversity in leadership, certainly we have more work to do. However we have made some positive progress in the last few years across our senior leadership team with an increase of representation of women, to start. Continuing to hire (and develop/promote) a variety of perspectives and voices is ongoing work and something we’re committed to. Our broad compensation philosophy is to reward great performance, foster an ownership mindset across all Formlings, and build a sustainable business model oriented on delivering value to customers. We use external and internal data to ensure we are paying market compensation based on role, level and impact. We analyze this 2 times per year before our performance cycles. For our sales team, we have competitive On Target Earnings packages, and access to world class accounts like Hasbro, Marvel, Tesla, Apple, etc - in addition to an infinitely wide range of customers, applications, and use cases for our product.

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