Hypertherm Associates reviews

Every single aspect of Hypertherm feels top-heavy. A flood of semi-qualified managers, decision-makers, and strategists create gridlock in actual decision-making and nothing gets done efficiently. While Hypertherm's strategy seems good on paper, in execution it is a cliquish, dysfunctional organization where no two managers speak the same "language" and they're all climbing over each other to get to the top of the ladder. The company seems to spend a lot of time touting its culture, values, and thought-leadership, but in my experience, they are very poor at practicing what they preach. Expectations are frequently unclear, goalposts move constantly, every detail of every project is decided by a revolving door of barely-interested leaders, resulting in a muddy and disappointing mess, lacking clear vision. In my own experience, communication is abysmal, unprofessional, and destructively dishonest, especially between managers and employees. Leaders will hire you for your "innovation" and a "fresh look" at how things are done, and then handcuff you with existing processes and norms, punishing any deviation from their own established thought process.

Love to pat ourselves on the back for how amazing and morally superior we are Any change takes a very, very long time to manifest, if it does at all Salary & hourly pay would be better if there was more local competition (which there actually is, Hypertherm just is lagging behind and now playing catch up because of many people leaving and difficulty hiring) Way too "top-heavy" - lots of managers, and holy cow is the HR structure way too big Some toxic internal engineering team cultures that have driven out multiple highly skilled and necessary individuals All must bow to the business teams, especially the engineering development business teams Awful parental/sick leave policies Way too many cases where "one person" has full control and responsibility over a business critical task/job Wants to be a $1B company while still keeping "one foot" in the two car garage the company started in, which creates a total lack of necessary processes and even entire departments that need to exist but do not, yet they keep trying to warp the existing structure to make more and more growth work The growth that has occurred (purchased companies ,etc) is completely separated from the Upper Valley NH Plasma-based HQ People are too nice to the point that it hurts the ability to make necessary change Some people are amazingly underutilized, despite having skill-sets the company desperately needs to utilize Some people are not held accountable to actually do anything, despite being well compensated Significant "concrete stander" vs "carpet dweller" culture divide, with the office/home working "carpet dwellers" driving the culture and assuming their highly ideologically charged beliefs would apply across the actual working population of the company