Markforged Reviews

2.2

19% would recommend to a friend

(166 total reviews)
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Shai Terem

8% approve of CEO

11% positive business outlook

Markforged has an employee rating of 2.2 out of 5 stars, based on 166 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Markforged employee rating is 36% below average for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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166 reviews
2.0
30 Nov 2023

Not a career company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

• Generous PTO offerings including a company shutdown week • Access to 3D Printers for personal use

Cons

• Toxic/Farcical “One Team” dynamic enforced by non-charismatic leadership team (lots of internal marketing) • Poorly managed software/data • Priorities that hard-pivot month-to-month • Dramatic amounts of employee turnover • General job insecurity (2 rounds of layoffs in the last year) based on company performance • Meetings meetings meetings meetings meetings meetings meetings meetings • Poor work/life balance since the company wants you to be logged in on Slack on your phone (also tried to push “Work/Life Blend” which sounds straight up dystopian) • Non-standard work practices (was told often that “no other companies do [x] this way”)

1.0
19 June 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Bad mgt Bad comp structure Don’t care about employees

Cons

RUN, don’t walk away from this company. In particular, Greg Mark is a horrible CEO. And Shai is not much better. They will not tell you the truth; they will lie. And they will run the company based on whatever new shiny object comes to mind. It’s simply a very, very poorly run company. It is primarily due to the lack of a REAL CEO at the helm. Board - wake up!!! Horrible CEO and a liar

2.0
29 Nov 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome tech, crazy smart coworkers, cool problems to solve, free 3d printing (for now), and exciting problems to solve.

Cons

* The CEO. This man has not made a single decision that worked out. He pushed for the release of a product that was unfinished (despite knowing so), changed his mind on product decisions on a weekly basis, spent millions to take over a new building only to have it half empty while still paying for the previous building, has zero experience working with contract manufacturers but will dictate how to work with them, genuinely thinks he coined the phrase "Don't stop believing", and has said in an all-hands about layoffs "yeah it's sad to see them go, but let's keep things in perspective people in Israel have been kidnapped". * The CHRO. She stated that we needed to return to the office despite living in the Midwest, punished those who used the "wrong" emoji to react to a Slack post, made no attempt to try to improve relations with dissatisfied employees, and pressured managers to lower the annual ratings of their teams.

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