This is a start-up - Anonymous employee Ascent Robotics Employee Review

- I am re-adding my previous review with edits and marking outlook as positive since the company realized the management problem and actively (albeit bit slowly) making changes to improve on things - Great technical staff, smart and enthusiastic people who are willing to go the extra mile to make things happen. - Flexibility to work on different areas and learn new technologies. - Lots of cool hardware to work/play with, hi-tech approach in development and research. - Chance to work on technologies that potentially will have great effect on a whole industry maybe even on the society. - Good location.

- Tendency of overpromises both internally and towards partners, investors hurt morale, some people are overworked and nothing is ever finished properly because there are 5 other things to do all the time - Advertised as a western-style startup but rather managed somewhere between a consultancy and a struggling mid-size Japanese organization. - Disconnect between senior management and the rest of the company - some teams are completely alone in figuring out what to do which creates lot of inefficiencies. - Company heavily tries so save on space and equipment which results in overcrowded office space. Scaling up is too fast while neither the office nor the organization can support this many people. - Problems are seldom listened to, feedback is not given, admin/management are occasionally hostile to employees or disregarding their needs to improve work efficiency and daily life.

- As the other reviews have mentioned, you'll be surrounded by really intelligent, outgoing, and hardworking engineers/researchers that get things done - Work hours are very flexible, as long as you work within the core hours and average 8 hours per day, you can come and go as you please - Great learning environment. I learned a lot from my mentor (who is one of the best mentors I've had) and from my colleagues. A lot of the engineers/researchers are quite passionate in what they do and are more than happy to teach what they know. - Everyone speaks English in the company which is convenient, but I'd encourage you to learn some Japanese even though you'll be fine with just speaking English - Oh and did I mention they have really cool toys like robotic arms

- There's definitely plenty of things that the company could improve on as mentioned by the other reviews, however, they've been putting in a lot of effort into addressing these problems to make their employees much happier.