Terrible personal experience - Sr Software Engineer ASML Employee Review

1.0
21 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Compensation and benefit are just ok. I like the product the company is working on, there are lots of smart people doing great works. The stock has been rising with the AI frenzy which benefit all the employee a little. The european part and the sites in San Diego and Wilton seem to be well managed.

Cons

The San Jose site is not well managed, People got promoted to manager not for management skills but for the length of stay in the company or Guanxi. Tall hierarchy and small groups with only 2 or 3 people and make work very inefficient. Managers in general don't know how to motivate or protect their employee but just try to get them overloaded to make the upper managers happy. The culture here is also getting closer to a Chinese company that values hustling and work overtime since the previous site director left.

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5.0
5 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

great job, treats employees well, long opportunity for growth

Cons

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2.0
1 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Location is good and near freeway, they make a crucial technology for the world to function

Cons

Toxic environment. Selective enforcement, antisemitic DEI culture, tattle tale rat snitch employees, managers play favorites, managers move the goal post after you were supposed to earn a salary increase. too many foreigners in management and not enough americans. DEI is a joke and is run by a racist black women. Company will burn you and punish you for problems someoen else created and punish you for it despite no power to fix the issue yourself.

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