An impressive corporation as a whole, but priorities are mishandled when it comes to smaller units of the buisness - Synthetic Organic Chemist Entegris Employee Review

3.0
Dec 28, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

generous open PTO policy. employee stock purchase program. Relatively friendly environment to work in

Cons

The process of Entegris obtaining a small conglomerate of specialty chemical companies 2 years ago seems to have left many things to be desired. understaffed, and management that has been installed often has an incompetent level of understanding as to how to make these small companies grow and succeed as they did before the Entegris acquisition. day-to-day work environment is very healthy and flexible but I (and many others in my boat) are left feeling that the corporation as a whole is unyielding in the attempt to make these very small, unique business they have acquired conform with the global Entegris production models and standards. Those standards work very well in the semi-conductor field, but the beuracracy resulting from them, and the lack of compatibility in integration to our very different buisness model,, creates a scenario where the blind are leading the blind, and real potential for progress is frozen in limbo, in lieu of red tape and quality management standards that do not relate well to the nature of our business; a mismatch I would call it- plain and simple.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Good, dedicated people at most sites. Lots of "career opportunities" due to high turnover creating a constant stream of openings.

Cons

1. Terrible leadership and management 2. Constant cost cutting without thinking about the ramifications 3. Continual acquisitions that don't get integrated properly before the next acquisition. This leads to a chaotic organization that is constantly changing. It also sparks a catastrophic clash of systems as Entegris tries to force everything into SAP in less than 12 months, regardless of the size of the company they have purchased. 4. This acquisition strategy makes the financial numbers look good when buying private companies because no one can evaluate the true synergies that were accomplished. All that is available is the picture after the acquisition, not before. But when they bought CMC, a public company, they clearly destroyed shareholder value that existed when the companies were valued separately.

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