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M Squared Lasers

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Being driven under by egotistical managment - Engineer M Squared Lasers Employee Review

1.0
May 30, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Product is good and work colleagues can make life bearable

Cons

Management have no moral compass and only sycophants can survive. The CEO pays himself twice the salary of the prime minister, plus another 20% increase a year. This is for running the company out of business with terrible decisions. This is while frequently not paying for the pensions, suppliers, rents, cleaners or salary increases. There has been no HR for years and it shows in a toxic working environment. Some of the practises at M2 border on outright fraud. Sooner or later everyone is pressured to do something just too morally questionable and have to quit. Headcount has dropped from 130 to nearly half that in the last few years.

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1.0
Nov 30, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You still get to work with some great people who are still left.

Cons

The executive team has no idea their employees are leaving because of them, their bad decisions, and their egos. Diversity does not exist here and if you're a woman, be prepared to only be head through your male managers. If you like to be told what to do, how to do your job, and get blamed for when things go wrong, this is the ideal place to be. Want to do your job? Ask for permission first.

13
1.0
Sep 16, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

None, all the professionals were laid off so the incredibly unprofessional management could save a few quid

Cons

Management. They are incompetent, delusional and downright dishonest to both staff and customers. Working conditions. Mismanagement causes weeks of downtime as management don’t understand lead times or, well, anything really. Then you will be given days, if not weeks, worth of tasks to do in hours. And you will be told if this doesn’t happen the company will not survive. And after your heroic efforts what reward awaits you? Not even a thank you. Salary. You might think the salary is competitive when you first join. But that’s all a ploy to get you in and trap you in and to keep you on exactly that salary until the day you leave. If you aren’t the special one (you are not, he already exists) you will receive nothing in terms of monetary reward. No inline with inflation salary increase. No salary increase even if you take over while other departments because the previous members have all quit and not been replaced. Not a single bean. That’s all for the CEO and COO. Directors will get yearly salary increases, increases that are double, triple, maybe even ten times your salary. But I measly employee who does critical work? You get nothing! I could go on but you get the gist. Do not work here. It is a toxic hellhole and I can only imagine it will continue to get worse

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