Best Internship program in the planet. Disorganized and contentious workplace - Engineer iRobot Employee Review

2.0
Jul 3, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The internship program is indeed world class. The interns are involved in varying activities and projects on a daily basis. The lead intern (on a second tour) acts like a manager and runs the intern program.

Cons

The roles and reponsibilities are not well defined and leave a wide range of lattitude to perform the tasks that you like to perform. However, making the various stakeholders (program mgmt, product mgmt, engineering, etc..) satisified is very difficult because the daily tasks and goals are not well defined. Therefore, agressive and contentious employees achieve at the expense of more proficient people who want to act as part of a team. I asked my manager which tasks I should work on. The repsonse was that the manager was uncertain as to the responsibiliities for supporting the other finctionalities (program mgmt, etc...).

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5.0
Feb 26, 2026
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Pros

Good working culture, people are co-operating, Company cares about employee, Treated employee very nice when company was in good condition, Still helped former employee to look for new job when the company had to let people go

Cons

Unfortunately the company made strategic mistakes and lost competitive edge to foreign companies

3.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- 5 star for the US, EMEA, and Japan people

Cons

- 1 star for the PICEA people

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