Fast-paced = Long Hours & Much Stress - S/W Engineer ASML Employee Review

2.0
15 Jan 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The machines we build are truly stuff of science fiction. And being the only feasible provider of EUV-based photo-lithography in the world doesn't hurt either. If you're bright, driven, and don't mind the super-fast pace - then you can have a bright future, with good benefits. HR is overall very good - lots of employee events, and community outreach as well

Cons

Too many projects, not enough time, and a mistaken belief that more employees lead to faster development. This combined with extremely aggressive program managers leads to over-worked and stressed engineers. Another issue is the inefficiencies of working here - tons of meetings, emails, leaving one with not enough time to get actual work done. What's more, this is a very process-heavy organization. While there are improvements being made to automate some of these, it will be a long time before working here becomes less than a painful exercise. Finally, there are far too many ASML-specific guidelines for software development (from coding standards, language use, architecture), which lead to a long learning curve, and many non-transferable skills.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Location is good and near freeway, they make a crucial technology for the world to function

Cons

Toxic environment. Selective enforcement, antisemitic DEI culture, tattle tale rat snitch employees, managers play favorites, managers move the goal post after you were supposed to earn a salary increase. too many foreigners in management and not enough americans. DEI is a joke and is run by a racist black women. Company will burn you and punish you for problems someoen else created and punish you for it despite no power to fix the issue yourself.

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