A big company with all its pros and cons - Software Engineer Cognex Employee Review

4.0
Jul 1, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I've been working at Cognex for more than two years as SW engineer. The tasks highly rely on actual project ranging from maintaining >10 yr old C code to working with latest technologies on new projects. The work environment and general atmosphere are both good.

Cons

As a big company, adaptation of new technologies is slow. In general, Cognex tends to follow industry trends rather than leading

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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