Carl Zeiss Vision: inept management, hostile work environments - Gopher ZEISS Group Employee Review

1.0
Sep 7, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The people I got to work with in the labs. They're innocent bystanders in a screwed-up corporate system.

Cons

Hostile work environment for gays, older people, and women. If you have some ideas and put them forth, they don't listen because Corporate didn't think of it first. Then months later, Corporate magically comes up with the same idea and now it's wonderful. They're so afraid of being shown up by anyone who knows more than they do that they prey on smart people (especially the Corporate HR group), mobbing and harassing anyone who they decide is "weird" or different, or doesn't agree with every stupid thing Corporate comes up with.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
May 29, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Per diem is nice, and the company car is ok

Cons

There is no ability to effect change; processes are so manual to keep people employed that should be let go, and the company is unwilling to listen to ideas of change. Also, there is no actual product quality, their so called Quality department does not deal with product quality at all, thus systems leaving the factory untested as a whole system or software releases being fully vetted for functionality. Their "Quality department" is only a CYA department to protect them from FDA audits, which quite frankly, could be called a Complaint Conversion Department. What is the point, other than titles, to call themselves Quality when nothing actually is fixed on the products and they are uninterested in end customer user experience or improving the actual product quality and sustainability.

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