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      Adlens Reviews

      3.7

      66% would recommend to a friend

      (36 total reviews)

      John Kennedy

      76% approve of CEO

      67% positive business outlook

      Adlens has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 36 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Adlens 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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      36 reviews
      2.0
      13 Dec 2018

      Paid to say what they say

      Anonymous employee
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      Business outlook

      Pros

      As a former employee and still having a lot of friends there I find it laughable about some of the reviews on here. Having been told that the CPO who is a (consultant not an employee) offering the staff a £5 donation to a charity to write a good review is ridiculous. The CEO offering the woman working there a book on how to empower themselves at work is quite a odd thing to be doing in this day and age. I enjoy my time there apart from the last year and made a lot of friends there

      Cons

      Not so great Management, who are looking out for themselves.

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      Adlens Response
      7y
      Thanks for your review. We gave to Save the Children to encourage all employees to do a Glassdoor review. We are a growing, fast changing business and the reviews, both good and bad, help to keep us on our toes and give potential new recruits a good insight into our business. We absolutely do want people to enjoy working here and we would always encourage anyone who does not feel they are being fairly treated to talk with their manager or John Kennedy our CEO directly so we can help sort it
      1.0
      26 Apr 2018

      Embarrassingly bad

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Good pay for a company that doesn't make any money.

      Cons

      Endless. Worst company I've ever worked for. Has a long standing habit of hiring skilled people and then refusing to listen to a word they say. They have absolutely zero understanding of product margin, and chase the vanity of turnover at any cost. This periodically catches up with them, they make cuts, and then go back round again. A CEO who was way out of his depth, and the least talented CFO I've ever met. There's a lot of talk of how smart the people are, and the term 'world class' is bounded around a lot - but the reality is that there's very little experience in relevant business, and a tendency to self congratulate to the point where total failure is dressed up as progress.

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      Adlens Response
      7y
      This review refers to a period during 2015 or 2016 which was not a good time for the company. The then CEO resigned in August 2016 and the CFO in February 2017. Since then, we’ve continued to hire fantastically skilled people to work on both augmented reality and autofocus glasses who are producing great results. The culture is open where all opinion counts, financials of the business are solid, investors are happy and losses far lower in 2018. Come and see for yourself – we need talented creators, John (the CEO)
      1.0
      8 Feb 2016

      Disaster

      Anonymous
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      Pros

      Quite a few nice people. If you are fortunate, you will travel the world, and eat well while doing it. As in other enterprises, if you are lucky to report to certain people, you will be well remunerated, regardless of your performance

      Cons

      Completely dependent on the whims of a CEO well past his prime, and unwilling to surrender any power. Horrific financial management, with money wasted shamefully on travel and entertainment. Abundant hypocrisy that tries to leverage the single owner's personal philanthropy into the fallacious claim that this commercial enterprise remotely cares about charity. Complete incompetency in manufacturing, marketing and selling a product that is actually quite useful

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      Adlens Response
      7y
      There’s been a huge change at Adlens in the past 18 months – we’re still committed to the original purpose of using the power of technology to help people see, but a new team have come in (I’m ex MOO, Green & Blacks, Richard worked on the 2012 Olympics and Sian’s from Dyson & Xerox). The culture is transformed, we’re working with some of the biggest names in AR/VR world and also developing cutting edge glasses. Come and see for yourself – we need we need talented creators to work on both augmented reality and variable focus glasses. John (the CEO)
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