Mixed Feelings - Tooling Molex Employee Review

3.0
Feb 9, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pay & compensation scheme is better than a number of companies in the similar fields. This is the only thing that keeps the employees in this department going, while they can.

Cons

Absolutely no work life and personal life balance. Employees in the tooling department usually need to work more than 12 hours a day. Saturdays and Sunday are said to be holidays but leaders will ask employees in this department to come to work either on Saturday or Sunday, or better still both days. So some workers are known to work 7 days a week. Meetings can go on like there's no tomorrow.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Molex is a great community. There are a wide variety of professional employees to network with. It is a very large company, but a small community.

Cons

Decisions from upper management, do not always trickle down through the organization. Not all of the departments follow the same guidelines. Case in point is remote working. different groups have different allowances. It is a small thing, but an area that could improve.

2.0
Jun 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits are very good for a company this size

Cons

Team is run based on last minute requests and on a lot of meetings to join leaving little time for your usual work. Director likes to devise “innovative” ways to get sales to give more information but instead it translates to chaotic management and more stress for demand planners. There are a lot of stress placed on leads for not getting their teams to get to unrealistic goals with an unsupportive sales team. There are hardly any consistent reviews for employees but it’s not unusual for employees themselves in PIPs. Overall I would say it’s a chaotic management style in this team. Pay hits industry average but not much more. Additionally there is an overemphasis on being in the office in this company because they recently invested millions in renovations so they track your badge swipes. There are really no company wide events to get people more unified other than a quarterly CEO town hall that managers force everyone to attend.

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