LA Gauge Company - Sun Valley, California

Alejandro Esquivel

LA Gauge is such a wonderful company to work for. They have bathrooms with showers in the back but are rarely needed because you don't even break a sweat with the A/C running all day. They have a full kitchen with a stovetop, 2 fridges, tables and chairs for the breakroom with A/C as well! They even have grills. Not too long ago the supervisors made hamburgers for everyone which were amazing! This week they're bringing an In-N-Out food truck for employee appreciation. I am so grateful to be working here. My coworkers are all great people to work with such great attitudes and always helpful when I ask questions, I wouldn't trade anyone of them if I could.

CJ Rivas

This review is not to put down the company itself because the work and programs it is associated with are actually really cool and critical, however, there are major issues with how management conducts itself that goes unaddressed. This is meant to give all future applicants and candidates seeking employment and establishing a career here a honest and fair warning of what to expect.

The 5-star reviews are fabricated by management to maintain their image whenever they fall below a 4-star average and employees are incentivized by meritless raffle tickets to leave 5-star reviews. The 1, 2, 3 star reviews will tell you what you need to know about the company’s true work environment.

The company has big goals, however I can’t imagine how it will achieve them with the current operations manager who could definitely benefit from both management training and anger management. He can’t get his point across unless by yelling, threatening, or intimidating you. I’m not sure why the company continues to protect him, although I documented every issue to HR, no efforts were made to improve the toxic environment and it actually got worse. He constantly harassed me, stalked me around the company and on my breaks, and carried out methods of constructive dismissal by limiting my work, ostracizing me from my supervisors and peers, and intensifying an already toxic and hostile environment until I finally left on my own.

If you are a highly-motivated individual seeking room for progress, your dreams and spirit will only come here to die.

Only thing keeping me were the classes I was taking with the community college they are partnered with. If anything, this company is a stepping stone as long as the operations manager is in charge. Get your experience, but you will never be respected, valued, or appreciated unless you benefit from the extreme nepotism present here. They fire people on a whim here.

4 months into the job, I ran into the quality control manager outside of work who turned out to be a creep toward women in and outside the workplace. He stole my date’s phone and we later tracked it that night to his location. We found him in Burbank in his car, engine running, headlights on, blacked out. I drove him home and he put me in a chokehold. I broke out and gave him the two-piece, no biscuit. Then tucked him into bed. These are the loose screws running this organization. I hope the president and owner investigate their management’s behavior and realize the hurt they put on their business.

All machinist, technicians, and maintenance crew were the highlight of my experience: so friendly, supportive, and willing to teach.

Erick Castillo

This company hires unqualified individuals to pay less, to create complex parts in order to profit more. Main operations manager is very sensitive so watch how you speak to him, won't really speak with you unless your one of his kids or friends like most of the place consists of. This company is VERY lucky to have the talent of machinist and engineers that have stuck around. If you have patience you can learn quite a bit from the team they have.

Ashley Zhou

Working as an intern this summer at LA Gauge was a great practical learning experience. It provided me a lot of experience that I can capitalize on in my future career. Since the management team is relatively small, I had the chance to work on various projects that had actual applications within the company which at an intern level might be rarer at a larger company. However, because of the smaller management team some processes were a little disorganized/less streamlined since everybody had a lot of tasks to deal with.

Marco Ayala

ive been working at LA Gauge for 5 months now and it's been a pretty good journey. I came in with very little knowledge about what ? they do but, in those 5 months ive learned an incredible amount more than i expected to learn in such little time. As i continue to grow and learn each and every day it brings me joy to what my future holds for me here.

Trey

Joke of a business.

This is the definition of an American aerospace sweat shop.

Management is incredibly unprofessional, rude, and predatory.

If you're a respectable business, do not associate your time with this little league job shop.

Production manager walks around likes he's the Hispanic Steve Jobs. Berates employees and new hires.

If you disagree, you're always wrong, no matter how uneducated they are.

**I never worked here, lol. The management response below believes that only the "new hires" are disgruntled.

timothy doyle

La gauge is a great place to work. The people are willing to teach you through very complex machining processes. Allowing for both a seasoned machinist to grow, and new machinist to get taught by some of the best in the industry.

Robert Mendez

LA Gauge is a perfect company to work and plan retirement. I recomend to apply here if youre looking for Long term oppurtunities.