Formlabs reviews

3.2

49% would recommend to a friend

(155 total reviews)
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Maxim Lobovsky

58% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

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4.0
May 2, 2025

Formlabs review

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- feels like Formlabs is going to keep growing and increasing valuation steadily for the next 10+ years. feel good about my equity. - makes great products that customers love and are generally better than the competition - focused on making a few excellent SKUs rather than spreading too thin across many - preserving cash / running a tight ship in terms of expenses, unlike competitors and many startups. - generally a great place to work / cool people want to work here & stay long term

Cons

- not great dissemination of the long term strategy / how we get there - leadership team can feel insular, but that's the flipside of a founder-controlled company

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Formlabs Response
1y
Thank you for sharing your feedback about Formlabs! We are so glad to hear you enjoy our best in class products, strategic decisions, and most importantly, our people. Through our global town halls, we regularly share vision, strategy, direction, and context to increase awareness and transparency within Formlabs. We openly encourage formlings to participate in the closing Q&A as well as provide feedback. If you would like to revisit any previous town halls, you can access them in our Core article under “Global Town Hall”. Additionally, many departments will use their monthly all-hands meetings to highlight any company wide decisions, wins, upcoming changes, etc.
1.0
May 2, 2025

Not recomended

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Pros

- Good people - Great innovative products - Challenging

Cons

- Poor Management (Mostly Senior) - Low Salary and Compensation - Grind Culture - Poor Work life balance - No focus on Career progression - Internal Politics

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Formlabs Response
1y
Thank you for sharing your feedback about Formlabs. We’re happy to hear you enjoyed our best in class products, the challenge of your work, and most importantly, our people. Also, we thank you for sharing your perspective on the areas for improvement. We understand that good work life balance looks different for everyone. We hire passionate people who truly enjoy the work, and sometimes we do see people working evenings or weekends. However, employees on most teams are empowered to set their own working hours, and sometimes work and life outside overlap. We are committed to supporting our employees' well-being, and fostering a respectful and inclusive culture, where employees feel recognized, appreciated and incentivized for their work and contributions. We continuously assess what actions need to be taken in order to make Formlabs w place where our employees are happy and proud to work.
1.0
May 1, 2025

Just Don’t

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Very few, the things that used to be Pros have been stripped away to the point where long term employees leave and Leadership cant’t be bothered, they’re just excited for another cost cut and another body they can move to a lower paying region.

Cons

Management is terrible, constant restructuring of teams and commission. People leave and are never replaced. The benefits are terrible (low pay, long hours, garbage health insurance, no 401k match, basically zero holidays, “unlimited PTO” which you can never take). Absolute culture of fear from the top down. Just read some of the responses Formlabs is posting here plus some of the reviews (lmao to the reviewer that says people who just want a high base salary probably aren’t a good fit). All the high reviews by management and team leads while the grunts hate it here.

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Formlabs Response
1y
It’s unfortunate that your experience has been so negative, especially more recently. We have made many changes over the past year as a growing business with very ambitious goals- and we’re achieving them. While we understand that it can be very challenging to work through talent strategy and business changes that at times negatively impact folks, evolution and change is what enables innovative companies to grow and thrive. We’re sorry it did not work for you. Formlabs has made significant progress over the past year, with new products like Form 4 and Form 4L launched. With 100,000 printers shipped and a growing number of customers loving our products, we are committed to growing and developing our Sales team. We evaluate our compensation regularly and we did recently increase the compensation in the US for several of our direct sales roles. We do want the best tech sales talent out there and believe this makes us a compelling place for folks of varying backgrounds to thrive. It is surprising to hear that you think our health insurance is not good as it's very robust with various plan options through the United Healthcare provider network and free plan options for employees. Our paid time off policy is also very flexible, but of course does encourage people to plan in advance so we can make sure we are staffing appropriately to meet the needs of our business. Fortunately many people are enjoying time at Formlabs. As someone on the team who drafts these responses, I’m sad to hear they don’t resonate with you. I truly work to thoughtfully review, share and action the feedback we receive.
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