Optics 1 Reviews

3.1

63% would recommend to a friend

(27 total reviews)

Bob Lachance

100% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Optics 1 has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 27 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Optics 1 employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace and defence industry (3.6 stars).

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27 reviews
1.0
2 Mar 2021
Recommend
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Pros

This company is a hostile workplace

Cons

Human Resources is terrible at addressing harassment charges. Directors are protected for some reason, just like Andrew Coumo thought he was. Maybe we should contact the news media.

1.0
27 Nov 2018

Stay away

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get a paycheck

Cons

terrible management they will not take responsibility for anything they just pass the buck. Build procedures are not correct but they will not allow them to be changed. Not enough tools/equipment to finish and test builds in a timely manner. They want more units built in a month that is impossible to do, they would know that if they did a time study. You can work a 12 hour day and they would ask you why you are leaving so early, they just want more and more and more. If you work yourself silly to hit the numbers for the month they want even more the next month. Employees have to skip steps to be able to get things done. They will knowingly send out units that do not work just to say they hit their numbers. They are all about pleasing and giving more and more money to stockholders, the customer comes next and as an employee you are just a number. They started a moral committee, not to find out why moral is so low but to do things like have an ice cream party by comparison it would be like being in an abusive relationship and staying in it because the person buys you a gift once a month. They choose group leaders that have only worked their a short time and they have no clue how to build anything or even tell you one part from another. They run out of parts to do a build and it ends up being the fault of the people building them. I could go on and on with the cons but you get the idea.

1.0
10 Sept 2015

Great place to learn... what not to do

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Learned a ton. Got to wear many hats. Developed cool products and was allowed to play with them outside of work as well.

Cons

Terrible management. No schedule whatsoever on projects, and Engineers were blamed when the nonexistent plan was not met. Projects were bid knowing that the schedule required could not be met. Zero compensation for massive amounts of required overtime. Terrible life balance.

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