Flex reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(4,929 total reviews)
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Revathi Advaithi

76% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Flex has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,929 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Flex employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Jul 31, 2019

Idiots hiring idiots

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Pros

Great experience for entry level IT related positions.

Cons

When I first started at the beginning of the year we were working 60 hours mandatory. Eventually they decided to cut our hours because they had hired on too many people. People who didn't know a single thing about what they were doing. I'm surprised they let people like that through the door for an interview, let alone hiring them. After the work shortage, we had to work less than 40 hours. You'd be lucky if you got 35 hours. Most people sat around doing nothing, or sat on the same laptop for a few hours after most of the work was gone. Those who tried to do more work and show off did the 'failed' units. Most of which were always available in the morning. But with idiots running around grabbing the failed laptops early on, they left nothing to be done in the evening for anybody to achieve 40 hours. Now they say they're paying more and their hours have gone up. That is wrong. Everything about this company and their hiring standards is just wrong.

2.0
Jun 25, 2019
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Pros

Experience in medical manufacturing and overall the team/people I work with are pretty great. This company can be used to gain experience in high speed manufacturing in the medical environment, but lack of recognition and reward will make you want to see yourself out after a year or so. Get the experience and get out

Cons

You won't get very far on merit alone. From talking to a few people in various departments, starting salaries are lower than lower than industry standard. It seems that if you get paid above the company average you are expected to give the company your life and all free time. There is a "60 hour" cap for exempt (hourly) workers but management won't do much for you as a salaried worker unless you have a good relationship with them. HR is joke and will sweep things under the rug to avoid having to do paperwork or escalate the situation. As stated above, you won't see yourself up the corporate ladder without active engagement in politics and brown nosing. If you have a good enough relationship with upper middle management, you can forget worrying about dealing with your peers directly. For applying to positions within the company, your manager's approval is required (not the con in this situation.) There is an engineer who worked tirelessly to lose the respect of not only his entire department, but every department in which he has worked with during his time at the company. He not only showed very little technical aptitude, he has close to no work ethic, very little respect for anyone he works with, and an extremely poor attitude. Since he has a nose for superiors, he got to work as soon as he realized who the power players were and developed "relationships" with the ones that weren't intelligent enough to realize that he was only using them to climb to the next rung. This is anecdotal, but I'm sure his manager liked him as little as all of the people that he worked with and almost surely would not approve of his internal transfer request. But nonetheless, he got a promotion (grade level for sure, unsure of compensation) to the department headed by the individual that he sucked up to.

1.0
Jun 6, 2019
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Pros

I can't think of any at this time.

Cons

This company is only profit driven. The treat their employees terribly when it comes to compensation - less than 2% annual raises, changing compensation and bonus plans mid year with no notice. What is someone living in San Jose supposed to do with that?

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