Avoid This Company. - Quality Assurance Protolabs Employee Review

Where to begin? - In general, people here are just a number. Instead of being treated like a valued, contributing member of the organization, employees are perceived by management to be an extraneous line item eating away at their bonuses. Nobody's job is safe. In the past few months, entire departments have been shuttered with very little notice or severance. High ranking and highly respected individuals at the managerial and director levels have also been terminated with absolutely zero notice and no plans to delegate their responsibilities. - It's clearly a sinking ship. Most people who have the ability to do so are leaving, many premier account managers in particular have jumped ship in the past few months. It is unclear how they plan on maintaining the top-tier client base that they so covet without those good folks on the ground doing the actual work. - Low pay. Positions pay well below market rate, and raises are hard to come by. Instead of leaving raises to merit and managerial discretion, everybody gets the same tiny pay bump that doesn't even cover rent increases regardless of performance. Sales had their commissions chopped down to next to nothing. - Gaslighting leadership. All-company meetings are filled with leadership crowing about high profits and the thriving culture while laying everybody off and cutting funding for team events down to nothing. Their response to a tsunami of negative employee reviews was that those employees should just quit. Instead of hiring on expensive consultants to fix your issues, literally just take accountability for your actions. It's that simple. - They announced record profits and an end to paid sick leave within a week of each other. Think that just about sums up the management style around here.