Don't Work Here, Even If It Means Becoming Homeless - Anonymous employee OPSWAT Employee Review

1.0
18 Feb 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

None. There is nothing about positive about OPSWAT that you wouldn't find at every other company. Hence, there's absolutely no reason to work here at all.

Cons

The CEO is terrible. He would rather be right to win and argument than grow the company. And unfortunately, it cascades down through the organization. He micro manages like crazy, changes his mind all the time and is a horrible communicator. His accent is super hard to understand and his emails are barely coherent. You'll think I'm exaggerating until you get one. No sentence structure or punctuation. Words spelled phonetically, but by someone with a super thick accent. Its kind of funny thinking back on it (FREEDOM!) but you'll want to stab yourself in the eye with a fork when you're actually trying to get some work done and then get incoherent feedback from him. Smart guy, yes. Hard working, yes. As smart as he thinks, no. Appreciative of others hard work, no. Every task is easy to him. But then when he tries to get his hands dirty... oh boy, he produces complete garbage. Most difficult thing is that he rearranges facts to suit whatever his current thinking is. He literally makes up stats and claims that other people in organization are asking him for whatever his crazy pet idea of the day is. Its like second grade school mean girl manipulation. And then he is so cheap. So cheap. Totally underfunds projects. And has the patience of a toddler. Somethings take more than a few weeks. But even when he agrees to a longer term project, he get antsy and wonders why it isn't done early. He is the least self aware person I've ever met.

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OPSWAT Response
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We are sorry to hear you had a bad experience at OPSWAT. Many of our employees find OPSWAT to be a fun, energetic, and happy place to work. We do understand different people have different styles of communication. We try and make sure that all of our employees feel appreciated and valued. This directive comes from our management on down.

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