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MKS Instruments

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MKS Instruments reviews

4.0

85% would recommend to a friend

(400 total reviews)
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John T.C. Lee

90% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Work/Life balance

3.9

Culture & values

3.8

Career opportunities

3.7

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Senior management

MKS Instruments has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 400 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MKS Instruments employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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Reviews by job title

400 reviews
2.0
Jun 18, 2021

Growing too fast, they don't care about their employees

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

Health insurance plan, vacation time

Cons

Management is a joke, most managers are clueless what they're doing but they have a degree and that makes them "management", micro management is thick at MKS, almost every person is in a terrible mood daily, workloads are ridiculously overwhelming for everyone. Unless you're a Manager, don't expect any perks. Bonuses are a joke for people under management. Zero support from HR.

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MKS Instruments Response
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Yes, we are growing fast as your comment title reads, however, that does not excuse some of the items you have listed. We recently launched an annual engagement survey to learn more directly from our employees about what is going well and where we can improve. We hope this will help us learn where we have issues or gaps within our workforce and management. We strive to continuously grow, learn and improve. Feel free to contact us at MKS.Feedback@mksinst.comif you would like to provide us with more information to help us on this journey. We appreciate your candor.
3.0
Aug 1, 2019

Working here can be rewarding, but unstable

Mechanical engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This was my first engineering job out of college. I worked here for four years and I was at two different divisions of the company: Boulder, CO and Longmont, CO. Boulder: -Good team of engineers that would pitch in to help each other with their workload. -Fill different job functions (worked with manufacturing, buyers, 3D printing, customers) -Each project was shorter than a month, so I got to see a lot of variety. -When I would find I was getting bored with one product line, then I would get transferred to something new. -hands-off management. Longmont: -New product development with multidisciplinary teams -I felt like I came into my own as an engineer and realized what being a mechanical engineer looks like. -Hands-off management style -Friendlier atmosphere. More people ate lunch together -Free soda and coffee in the cafeteria

Cons

Not a lot of career development opportunities at either location. I felt like changing job functions is frowned upon because you never really lose the old job functions. Even 3 years after I was moved from a product line and the product line was discontinued I was still asked questions about the old product line. I think a lot of the hesitancy from upper management to shift employees around is that the CEO has to approve of every hire. Honestly, if the CEO would let business divisions make their own decisions about what they need and don't need, then the company as a whole would be better off. There was a lot of turnover in both management and non-management positions Because of the turnover in management, there were a lot of mixed messages and I felt like management's direction wasn't unified.

3.0
Dec 9, 2018

Profuction

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Payscale and benefit package is pretty. Mostly a good bunch of people too.

Cons

Overworked and underappreciated. High stress environment because management let's the customers run the place.

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