Sinking Ship, would rather work anywhere else - Anonymous employee Protolabs Employee Review

2.0
May 14, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- My immediate colleagues are wonderful, intelligent, and great to work with - Benefits are decent

Cons

I’ve only been with PL for a little over 2 years and things have gone down hill FAST. What once was a company built on culture and people, has now turned to profit and greed. It’s very clear that the c-suite team doesn’t care about the employees or their concerns. Entire teams have been laid off without a plan to continue their workload, managers with years of experience have been laid off without warning, or a way to keep the knowledge within the company. Wages have been low since day one, but even after hiring a pay specialist (and they quit shortly after) nothing was done to give any sort of market value updates. The leadership teams somehow are still patting themselves on the back for “listening to their employees”. Wild take considering many folks barely got a raise (like 3%) or none at all. High level AM’s have been leaving left and right for better positions and the solution is to offload the work onto other teams that are already struggling with demand. Folks are burned out, scared to speak up, worrying about losing their job, and are generally miserable. The culture that was here when I started is completely gone. I’ve already felt like I’ve overstayed my welcome here.

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5.0
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Pros

Great culture and feel. Best job in my career so far

Cons

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1.0
Mar 31, 2026
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Pros

Used to be great company with great culture and flexibility

Cons

New CEO Surresh has come in and completely destroyed the company culture that made Protolabs a great place to work at and was often awarded as such. Every meeting is coated in anxiety and the impending doom of layoffs despite record profits. In January a RTO was announced and there has been no flexibility and a straight up refusal to provide ADA accommodations to disabled employees by the HR department. They have taken away the flexibility that they used to provide to working parents that allowed them to work in office after/before their kids go to school despite not paying a living wage that would allow them to afford additional childcare. They have also chosen to make it even more difficult for employees to even receive a meets standards on their reviews as a cruel attempt to ensure they don’t have to give reasonable raises (which are rarely above 3% as is and they don’t provide market adjustments.) It’s unrecognizable from the company it used to be. They underpay, overwork, and expect the world of their employees while refusing to treat them with respect.

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