A bit messy... - Anonymous employee Universal Robots Employee Review

2.0
8 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great balance between work <> personal life Very cleaver colleagues

Cons

No product management/ownership Projects change scope very often Projects aren't really innovative but rather following current/recent past technologies IT Department limits the use of modern tools (e.g: no use of cloud tools) Although they say they use Agile, in reality, they use Waterfall methodology No bonus scheme based on performance (only for managers)

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Universal Robots Response
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First we would like to apologize for the tardy reply and thank you for the feedback. We’re committed to creating a comfortable, transparent and collaborative environment for all our employees. Our passion is to change the world one cobot at a time. The level of growth and change required to maintain our market position demands extreme agility – and sometimes our greatest asset is our ability to change direction and/or scope quickly. Communicating these changes to colleagues including the rationale and value of the change is key and an area for improvement. The past six months have definitely seen quite a few changes as we continued to grow our workforce and focused on key projects such as our recent product launch, e-Series. Continuing our position as an innovation leader in the cobot market is one of our highest priorities.

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