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Administrative Assistant/Receptionist (Former Employee), Santa Clara, CA – January 8, 2013
Worked with all types of personalities. Great Company. Meet and greet.
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Disruptive technology. Smart, innovative and dedicated employees. Failing management. Autocratic CEO
Sales exec (Current Employee), Santa Calra – December 8, 2012
Pros: nice co-workers
Cons: terrible management and tyrant ceo
Pros – Transformational and disruptive technology changing the way research scientists and gas utility companies are making measurements of green house gases, stable isotopes and natural gas pipeline fugitive emissions. Smart, innovative and dedicated employees. Lots of camaraderie among the hard working employees.

Cons – Executive team is weak, has – more... a severe lack of focus and act as cheer leaders for the CEO. They live in an ivory tower while the employees slave away to ship quality products out the door that pay the bills. CEO fails to set an achievable sales target that the company keeps missing and has temper and rage issues bordering abuse with no consideration to work-life balance or employees family commitments. Basically, all what matters is the bottom line to impress the board of directors. The work environment has lots of undue tension in the air, usually dictated by the CEO moodiness. Besides, none of the execs has a genuine commitment to advance the career development path of the hardworking employees. Stock option value is so diluted with no annual bonus payment for 2 yrs straight.and no salary increase or even inflation adjustments.

Advice to Senior Management – The hardworking employees in the huddle are the real achievers and the main asset for Picarro . You should show appreciation for the smart team of engineers, scientists and technicians who are devoted to make Picarro successful and excel in building a shiny image of the company. Create an enjoyable work environment instead of the current tense and intimidating one. – less
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A OK JOB
MPI/NPI/BOM Writer,support Engineering&Production (Current Employee), Santa Clara, CA – May 4, 2012
Pros: sometime has free lunch
Cons: got break
They are OK and i do pretty much a little of everything. I learn new thing almost everyday or so. I go pretty good boss and co workers.
Hardest part is go back and fix all the mistake that been made.
Most enjoyable part is work with friendly co-worker and met all deadline.
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JoeBlow – December 23, 2012

I looked at glassdoor.com and several other employees think differently about this topic.

Jane123 – January 6, 2013

Employees are largely dissatisfied, there is very high turnover, equity position is diluted, CEO is abusive. Many in Sr. Management positions have left. Check out other reviews on Glassdoor and look elsewhere. There are many other opportunities in the Bay Area. This one may not be worth pursuing.

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Great Technology, Really Tallented Staff
Director of Reliability and Test Engineering (Former Employee), Ottawa, ON – December 12, 2012
Pros: interesting technology, smart people, fabulous infrastructure, great support, good pay and benefits.
This was the best working experience of my life. What a pleasure to work with such a talented and cohesive team. I could not say enough good things about Picarro.
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Picarro produces ultra-trace gas analyzers for environmental monitoring, automotive emission testing and high-tech manufacturing. – Read more