Great Products - Very overrated leadership. - Senior Sales Engineer Molex Employee Review

3.0
25 Sept 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The products, capabilities and engineering design of Molex is actually incredible. They have fantastic manufacturing facilities and maintain very high quality standards.

Cons

The leadership in the sales area is very incompetent. Many of the VPs have been promoted simply due to luck and NOT because of skill. In many cases they were just at the right place at the right time, For example, one individual was assigned to CISCO and made a big name for themselves when very large orders came through. They did nothing extraordinary, but were promoted as if they had actually generated the business out of thin air. Now a VP, this individual's lack of depth, required for this role, causes more harm to the company than they know. Anyone at CISCO at the time would have gotten the job done. Maybe even a trained monkey, but because the order's were large dollar volume the person got "rewarded" not on ability or talent, but on the basis of numbers. This type of person does not necessarily make a good candidate for promotion and in this case it did not. They were much more competent as a sales person, but terrible at being a VP or leader. Sadly, Molex has more of these types of "leaders" and they do cause harm.

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5.0
8 Jun 2026
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Pros

Molex is a great community. There are a wide variety of professional employees to network with. It is a very large company, but a small community.

Cons

Decisions from upper management, do not always trickle down through the organization. Not all of the departments follow the same guidelines. Case in point is remote working. different groups have different allowances. It is a small thing, but an area that could improve.

2.0
6 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are very good for a company this size

Cons

Team is run based on last minute requests and on a lot of meetings to join leaving little time for your usual work. Director likes to devise “innovative” ways to get sales to give more information but instead it translates to chaotic management and more stress for demand planners. There are a lot of stress placed on leads for not getting their teams to get to unrealistic goals with an unsupportive sales team. There are hardly any consistent reviews for employees but it’s not unusual for employees themselves in PIPs. Overall I would say it’s a chaotic management style in this team. Pay hits industry average but not much more. Additionally there is an overemphasis on being in the office in this company because they recently invested millions in renovations so they track your badge swipes. There are really no company wide events to get people more unified other than a quarterly CEO town hall that managers force everyone to attend.

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