Still unearthing psychological damage, years later - Avis employé Materials Scientist Formlabs

2,0
18 nov. 2024
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Avantages

Smart, interesting coworkers. Very cool offices, yummy free lunches. Work with tech that your friends will "ooh" and "ahh" about at parties.

Inconvénients

Was pushed to the worst burnout and mental breakdown of my life attempting to meet insane deadlines, predicated on the working pace of someone who almost quit and was transferred because it was too much for them. The pressure is immense, and has caused a lasting productivity anxiety that I am still trying to undo, years later. Only work here if you have extremely strong work-life balance and boundaries. Otherwise, this is a burnout factory where you will likely last two years or less and leave with lasting psychological scars. Safety practices are typical of an engineering company working with advanced materials-- widespread ignorance and a false sense of security at normalized exposures. If you work there, read the SDSs and approach the materials with a healthy sense of skepticism. Protect yourself, no company (especially a startup) will. The "path to profitability" is necessary to grow this company up, but also seemed to be slowly stripping away the fun benefits of working there.

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Réponse de Formlabs
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Thank you for your feedback. We’re glad you love our products and technology, enjoyed working with talented colleagues and appreciated the office perks. It is true that we have placed significant focus on getting better, faster, and more efficient so we can continue to lead our industry – and we’ve made a lot of progress. At the same time, we recognize the challenges you faced as we raised our talent bar and made changes to teams. We know this left some areas understaffed for a short period of time as we hired new team members. We’re surprised to read about your comments on safety practices. We prioritize safety - we have teams focused on this who developed and documented robust protocols that are pushed to all employees to ensure the well-being of everyone and we run safety training on all areas of our protocols, materials and equipment with all new hires. We have safety focused posters all over the offices, we encourage all employees to call out violations of our protocols when they see an issue, and we provide everyone with PPE. We also make it very easy to report any incidents and take action to remedy problems immediately.

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