Caliper Designs Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"Good to work and learn a lot here"

"Good place to work at the company"

"Caliper has seen better days, but no vision makes for a cloudy future."

What do you like about working at Caliper Designs?

"I enjoyed the coworkers. Even my boss was great on a personal level. I would hang out with any of these people any day. I would only recommend this job because it is a nice place to hang!"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I would not recommend this company to anybody, unless it was a sales job or on Caliper's research team. The skills you can develop in sales is the same everywhere so it will be the same here. The research team at Caliper is pretty sharp and I really enjoyed my interactions with them. Made me feel like my job mattered when I talked to them."

What don't you like about working at Caliper Designs?

"They seem to lack overall vision. Management does a poor job of expressing what the future will hold. They also seem to have a track record of only hiring the same people to jobs they are not qualified for. From my experience, whenever a new executive comes in and tries to do things the right/different way, they become sidelined and eventually terminated This seems to be because management simply does not want to grow with the times. If I knew someone who was going to work here, my advice would be: The less you do the more they will love you. The less you say the more you will be respected. Keep your professional opinions to yourself, unless you would like to be out of a job in less than a year."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Again, this is only from my experience. Management needs to wake up and accept the reality of what this company does. Instead of reorganizing the worker bees, start looking at upper management. Workers will do what you tell them to, if the head on the horse doesn't know what direction to move the legs then the horse will be lost. This is the fate of Caliper as I see it. I know they've been having layoffs and this will save the jobs of the executives for a short period of time, but not the fate of the company. My advice to Herb would be to get back to basics and become more in touch with the legs of your horse. Because its hard to make a good decision when upper management is blowing smoke in your face. I always had great respect for Herb and think he can make things work, but the people who surround him seem to be his biggest weakness."