Not a place to grow at - Anonymous employee Molex Employee Review

2.0
6 Aug 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice campus, cafeteria, very nice co-workers, no layoffs during my time there, likeable and more transparent CEO, ambition to expand beyond connectors, secure in the market. I also have built a pretty good network of other engineers who have jumped ship!

Cons

Experience will vary by business unit and team you work in. I can confidently say that there is not a good growth mentality here, more a static mentality, so impending retirees or those not looking particularly for advancement should be happy, depending on manager of course. There is a good underlying philosophy handed down by Koch, though it is neither followed nor enforced amongst management, who are well protected by an impotent HR and their own cadres. You will notice an alarming lack of young employees, as lack of growth will be immediately evident. Interns in my department were not returning and were given rather boring tasks. Bonuses and raises are determined by value, though this will be mandated by managers, so obedience will generally be more valued than the profit you'll add to the company. Managers have also been caught fabricating the 360 reviews supposedly given by fellow coworkers. I've seen sponsored H1B employees (who their EE teams are now mostly made up of) get overworked, have their green card applications delayed, and also get well underpaid for their high qualifications (often with phds) and then vanish once their cards finally come through. So pay is low, benefits on par with a big company, raises and bonuses not guaranteed though generally paltry, and growth mentality entirely lacking. The regular outflow of young engineers should be expected, which has been observed and discussed not only in my business unit but across the company. Since I started at the team of around 20 EEs, there are exactly 2 others who are still there. And when I told them I was leaving, the first thing they did was justify the high turnover with the high demand for our skill set, which more explains why we can leave, not why we do leave.

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Pros

Molex is a great community. There are a wide variety of professional employees to network with. It is a very large company, but a small community.

Cons

Decisions from upper management, do not always trickle down through the organization. Not all of the departments follow the same guidelines. Case in point is remote working. different groups have different allowances. It is a small thing, but an area that could improve.

2.0
6 June 2026
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Pros

Benefits are very good for a company this size

Cons

Team is run based on last minute requests and on a lot of meetings to join leaving little time for your usual work. Director likes to devise “innovative” ways to get sales to give more information but instead it translates to chaotic management and more stress for demand planners. There are a lot of stress placed on leads for not getting their teams to get to unrealistic goals with an unsupportive sales team. There are hardly any consistent reviews for employees but it’s not unusual for employees themselves in PIPs. Overall I would say it’s a chaotic management style in this team. Pay hits industry average but not much more. Additionally there is an overemphasis on being in the office in this company because they recently invested millions in renovations so they track your badge swipes. There are really no company wide events to get people more unified other than a quarterly CEO town hall that managers force everyone to attend.

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