Vantaggi
• Remote work options based in a few select states • Company swag (shirts, hoodies) are higher quality than most • Micromanagement does not seem to be a common problem • Decent gig if you're management • Some DEI initiatives (see below) • Great coworkers (excluding HR/management)
Svantaggi
• Management can be petty, vengeful, and ineffective. • Turnover is high, which is telling in the current market • In my 10 years of professional experience this company has the most sociopathic over-policing and out of touch HR group I've ever witnessed. At any company I have low expectations for HR, but this group still fell short. • Decisions impacting employees are often made without sufficient understanding or effort to learn. • Abysmal communication from leadership, but it doesn't matter since they will not take your feedback anyway. • Some sales managers seem to be completely unaware of anything, don't know how to help with any of my problems and are not willing to try. • Low salaries across the organization and sales commission structure that works against sales people. Some coworkers have received promotions yet earn less after promotion. • Questionable practice of adjusting sales targets on a whim, directly affecting comission payouts since sellers must meet a threshold to be eligible. • While DEI is promoted, support for neurodivergent staff is absent, upper leadership and HR shows little understanding in this area • Engineering teams have appalling salaries for the work they do. New hires are trying but lack acumen gained from on the job experience -> lost sales -> missing targets -> lost comission. • The company does not value you, they will never counteroffer or respond to a request for a raise. They'll let you walk instead and will backfill your spot with a lowballed college grad. • Many key knowledgeable staff were laid off or no attempt was made to retain staff that quit, creating operational struggles for those remaining • Protolabs crushes every company they buy. They do not take time to understand why companies they purchase have excellent growth (compared to their approximately 0% growth). They learn nothing from acquisitions. • Raises are fractions of a percent higher than COLA, but Protolabs does not have COLA. • The plan to combat poor culture and morale created by management and HR is pizza parties, pancake parties, and ramen packets. • I'm not kidding, this is a large multinational publicly traded company that gives ramen and pizza parties to try and fix their problems. • From the bottom of my heart I would not recommend Protolabs unless you have a dire need to put food on the table. I do not know employees outside HR or management who are satisfied with their jobs. I am ashamed of this company that I tried to like.
