ASML

The technology with which one works is absolutely fascinating and unique.

And you will be working with colleagues from many different backgrounds.

ASML frequently shows itself to have outgrown its systems and governance.

I can't speak for other departments, as manufacturing seems mostly divorced from everything else, but in the factories, your work and, even more, your career are constantly haunted by bosses and systems from when this was a relatively obscure Dutch company. These haven't kept up with the fact this is now, supposedly, a modern company.

As a senior colleague frequently says: "We work in the largest backyard company in the world."

Take a deep, hard look at the leftover Dutch manufacturing leadership from earlier days of the company. Manufacturing often feels like the unwanted tumor hanging off of an R&D business, and much of it comes from the leadership.

Also contributing to it is a whole generation of international and local employees that were subjected to the agency system. For a company whose values supposedly included "Care," the agency contracts were substantive proof that the values were simply marketing.