Universal Instruments Reviews

Let me begin by saying it pains me to share the following... Vision and Strategy no further than the tip of a nose Parent company has bled of nearly all it's value... and continues to do so... CEO and CFO manage / regard employees and the company as if it's a video game - ruthless characters with no regard for anyone but themselves. Spousal Abuse comes to mind in terms of describing how employees are treated. Don't believe a word they say, as they are not truthful... Management style is Draconian, and majority of the staff directly below have become standees with no real value/other than execution of the top executive's biddings. They're just hanging on for a big payout that will never come, and lost themselves in the process. Market share and revenue decreases dramatically globally every year... And will fall out of the top 10 in the market in the not too distant future. Company value is nowhere near the value the parent firm/execs believe it's worth Company's annual quantity of shut-downs grow dramatically every year resulting in a large quantity of employees not having enough vacation time to cover the 5-7 weeks of annual shutdown time, and therefore must take unemployment benefits. Pride themselves as having a 'floating workforce' Strongly suspect long term objective is to bleed out whatever they can from the company and then shut the doors, and then move on to the next company that they can bleed, one company at a time. The claim is we make money because we're debt-free, but if sales and market share continue to plummet, there's no money to invest in the future... Atrophy is inevitable & occurring every day. Scare & mislead employees in to believing their bad-practices are commonplace the same every where these days... Having left the company and had different work experiences since then, I can say that their tactics and policy changes are not the way other 'good' companies operate.

While trying to compete with foreign markets, upper management continues down the same path. Sales and marketing is always given the red carpet treatment while manufacturing, engineering, technical support, field engineering, spare parts, etc are treated as disposable and easily replaceable. There is a lot of tribal knowledge in the company that was lost during the last layoff and those layoffs were directly felt by customers the same day. Sales constantly sells inappropriate equipment configurations to the customer and then walks away while field engineering, engineering and technical support try to rectify the situation with the customers. When the problem requires extra money to resolve the problem sales concedes hundreds of thousands of dollars, bleeding money from the heart of the company, but are never held accountable for those actions.