Great products - poor senior management - Anonymous employee Universal Robots Employee Review

2.0
19 Oct 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary is ok Great SW developers

Cons

3 R&D VPs in short time - the current is an extremely bad communicator - my 7 year old has better English and communication skills. It is embarrassing! Management knowledge about good agile SW execution is very limited - and destroying what could have been a well oiled agile delivery organization - a shame and people are leaving the company in masses.

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Universal Robots Response
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Universal Robots is committed to maintaining our strategic software advantage in the collaborative robot marketplace. In the last eighteen months, we have made significant investments in the infrastructure, resources and tools to support a growing and developing Agile-focused Software organization. These measures were adding to staff headcount (including Scrum Master and Technical Lead positions), upskilling our existing software developers with learning and project collaboration opportunities, and creating stronger infrastructure and processes. We are proud that this investment has resulted in a stronger retention rate than the industry average, and we continue to search for ways to invest and improve. We are sorry that our efforts have not met your expectations, and we would invite you to reach out to your manager or HR business partner at any time with constructive feedback. Through the ongoing exchange of ideas and inputs from all our colleagues, we can demonstrate our values of Courage, Passion, Innovation and Integrity to the people whose lives we impact: one robot at a time.

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