Nanotronics Reviews

2.9

38% would recommend to a friend

(62 total reviews)

Matthew Putman

43% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Nanotronics has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 62 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Nanotronics 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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62 reviews
1.0
4 June 2016

don't even think about it

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

somewhat flexible work schedule, seemingly innovative start up environment but don't be fooled management doesn't really don't want to hear any ideas or suggestions from anyone they are too busy congratulating themselves on their supposed genius..

Cons

they fire people all the time, this company has zero loyalty to employees and the executive level management think they are all Albert Einsteins.. a highly political, unprofessional environment.

1.0
30 June 2019

A miniature Theranos of the semiconductor automation industry

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lunch is catered in Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Occasionally, breakfast bagels and afternoon treats are catered in on Friday. Full closet of snacks. You can make a lot of good friends here. You get to learn a little about the semiconductor industry, basic computer vision techniques, and hardware microcontrollers.

Cons

There's a reason most of the reviews here have the word "toxic" or "unethical" in their headlines; the so-called "executives" of the company firmly believe in the "ship it then fix it" sales model and act as if they were the original inventors of this concept. The lack of any basic technical knowledge among senior staff is hilariously bad. If you try to critique or constructively criticize the sales approach -- or "bring light" to "whispers in the dark" as described by another most likely fake review -- they will either brush off your comments as being "too negative", tell you that there is nothing to worry about and this is "how companies grow", or capriciously create a new senior management role to act as a wedge between you and them. Speaking of fake reviews, there is a very high chance that there are fake reviews here written by management to counteract the more accurate negative reviews of the company. This isn't even the extent of the dishonesty and lack of integrity present at the company; as other reviews have mentioned, data is sometimes manipulated or even completely fabricated to mislead clients into a PO. Overall, senior management act and behave exactly like the senior management of Theranos as reported by John Carreyrou in "Bad Blood" -- capricious, vacuous, egotistical, political, incompetent, unethical, toxic, and even malicious if you attempt to correct them or challenge their fragile egos. In addition to the senior management troubles at the company, the product and research the company has are largely bogus. On the software side of things, the main software product barely works and is only somewhat viable due to a large number of software patches being rolled out to customers. Software development is thought of as an "implementation detail" rather than being a guiding principle of the company and one to continually work on and improve. People who have no business speaking about or advising on software practices are allowed to make critical decisions about the software design and implementation. On the research side of things, things aren't much better. Most of the research projects attempt to follow the "salami slicing" model of research and barely improve upon any existing material. Any progress on the projects is greatly exaggerated internally and to investors. All of these problems bring us back to square one: lack of basic professionalism, decency, integrity, and respect for the company and its employees. If you respect yourself and your craft, go somewhere else.

1.0
29 June 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Trying to be innovative, if you obey and follow blindly you'll last for awhile. If you're not a tech person you might last longer. They have some younger engineers who have skill but others who are protecting their turf at the expense of the company itself.

Cons

They have a history of hiring creative people and then firing them because their senior staff needs to blame newer staff for problems that are ingrained in their system. Their staff is hanging on with bad designs. This seems to be a pattern since at least 2014; they start a new initiative to re-write parts of their system only to fall flat on their face and look for newer hires who can provide newer designs, but who thus threaten their 'establishment', which is not true at all, but unacceptable to them. Also they have the firing philosophy; libertarian nonsense.

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