Advanced Energy reviews about "upper management"

dont hear many things from upper management about the future. a lot of uncertainty

- In my 3 years of work at Advanced Energy, our engineering manager was changed more than 5 times. Lot of miscommunications happened between our engineering managers and their upper management, led them to either retire or quit or getting terminated, and surprisingly HR did not take any steps, even though observing a pattern here. - Due to change in our engineering managers rapidly, there is no time to focus on personal development and growth, as each manager had their own point of views in developing the team. - Our team has delivered 2 prototypes to the clients regardless of whatever their demands are. Still no promotions or recognitions. - Favoritism in terms of promotion, while employees older than 3 years were getting nothing, but a 6 months old newbie gets a promotion, even though having less experience compared to the position he/she got. - Due to work visa limitations, they agreed me to transfer to another company location, which is great, but their interview process was alarming, as they took seven round of interviews for practically same work position, and it was just an internal transfer! Then, they did not give any feedback until I initiated responses several times, also gave an automatic reply that I was not selected. - When they can't even write a reason why I was not selected/transferred for practically same position as company employee, you should not expect anything as an outsiders.

Mid- to upper management are clueless, unable to plan, unwilling to hear feedback, and create a super toxic environment. Also HR is there to support management, not anyone else.

Upper management has no plan for Engineer career Growth. Project deliverables and projects TCD are the only important for them. Seniority and long tenure are priority for promotion despite others and more competent engineers are obviously capable and resourceful.

Upper management, though, is TOXIC. There are CONSTANT re-orgs, leadership keeps changing, and priorities shift nonstop. It’s hard to get anything done when your team or direction keeps getting flipped. They also shut down multiple sites and moved work to Mexico, which added even more instability. If you want stability and growth, DO NOT join. The people are great, but management will burn you out.

upper management did not appear to know the problems common workers faced.

uncertainty with upper management constantly shuffeling

Management can be rude and blunt which has it's time and place but here, it is more often than not. You can easily get siloed into doing very tedious tasks and sometimes it feels like you are working more on presentations than engineering so upper management doesn't berate you in front of everyone during a meeting. Lots of my peers occasionally work weekends, long extra hours, and go above and beyond for little recognition. Hard work is easily unnoticed here and under appreciated