Vantaggi
3D printing is an important technology and you get to be part of it all. You'll work with some of the finest people you'll ever meet. So many people at MakerBot are unhappy because of their jobs, so you will quickly obtain good drinking buddies. The widespread unhappiness will reassure you that you're not the problem. Free fruit?
Svantaggi
What reason do you have for joining a company? To further your career? To work on making and selling great products? To pull down a decent paycheck? To work in a fun, open environment with great perks? MakerBot fails on every one of these points. -Unless you have a personal connection to someone in a leadership position, there is no career path for you here. Few employees are truly empowered to make a difference, most are hamstrung by leadership. It’s likely that you won’t be with the company long enough to see a pay increase, let alone get a major promotion. -Well meaning engineers are limited by poor product planning and are forced to make compromises in quality so that MakerBot can make a few more bucks per unit sold. Marketing is forced to outright deceive customers, completely divorcing themselves from reality in order to sell a few more units or generate a few more leads. Salespeople are not allowed to use the products they sell, because they wouldn’t be able to make a sales pitch with confidence if they saw how poorly they functioned. Support staff is overworked and morale is low because customers are sold products that are known to fail at rates higher than any sane company would allow. -Salaries across the board have always been insultingly low, even after the merger. If you work in the corporate office, grab a free banana and enjoy the view. It’s the only perk you’ll receive. If you work in the factory, put that banana down and get back to work. Decisions made by leadership for the past year have been obsessively focused on making short-term gains in order to meet sales goals related to performance-based earn-out bonuses, the vast majority of which would go to them. As it turns out, when you rush three products to market before they are ready, people tend to return them and demand their money back! That's the kind of poor, reckless leadership you’ll experience at MakerBot, and it trickles down to every department.