MTS Systems reviews

I reported to the CFO at the time who lacked the ability to instill a strong sense of unity and culture within the finance organization. The culture supported and perpetuated by this individual was cut-throat and enabled a strong sense of distrust. She often disregarded long-term employees and had little value for historical practices. Her behavior was such that very few trusted her and felt no or minimal support to fulfill their roles. As such, the finance organization was viewed by others outside the organizations as a necessary, but uncooperative association and the CFO did little to enhance a positive image. If you're looking for a finance position, look outside MTS. Look to those who have already worked within the organization and be diligent in getting feedback. Perhaps the environment has changed over the recent years.

This new CEO came in bragging about making this a Billion dollar company. No one wanted this but Graves himself. The board did not dare go against Graves because it is now the my way / or highway mentality. We being in the field gave up a lot of family time. Birthdays , special events and anniversary’s to be on the road for this company. Expecting MTS to be loyal to us when times got tough. Yeah right they started canning people almost as soon as the pandemic broke. They show a pattern of terminating people when it suits them. They have Zero respect for seniority, it means nothing there. The perks have long since dried up. They started having employees subsidize the gas with payroll deduction, that wasn’t enough for Graves. Next they eliminate the gas deduction and institute a new burden, Everyone with a company vehicle will now subsidize the company vehicle at $125.00 a month. The object here was you get a new vehicle every 45000 miles. MTS never lived up to the agreement they wrote on this. They did provide new vehicles once in 2015 then quietly changed the policy without any notice what so ever to employees. They jacked up the mileage the vehicle is kept to 75000 yet they keep charging this $125.00 a month for all company vehicles. Not keeping up with their own ethics that they preach yet don’t follow. The real insult here is Field Service makes them tons of cash revenue even at 40% direct labor yet they ride you constantly if you don’t maintain over 70% direct labor. Then they come up with this insurance cost cutting by shifting people to major catastrophic coverage saving them millions and costing employees more. If you kept regular health insurance they jacked up the premium every year even though Field Service made tons of money and was not overhead. The perks are long gone here. There is no job security here and to those younger Field service engineers now doing the jobs cheaper so they can pillage even more for the bottom line, your day will come, the second they can save a buck you will be shown the door. Now I have to laugh because the CEO screwed up MTS so bad it may never recover. Being on the front line in front of customers they have been unhappy with the direction MTS has been heading. MTS cost too much, not a big deal when the equipment worked but now it’s mostly coming from China. Looks like the party is over at MTS. They will never be as great as they once were. The best thing that ever happened to MTS is Graves left. Jumped ship when it got rough.