Pros
CP is a very unique and wide spectrum of specialty company, providing a multitude of services, primarily to broadcast television clients. At CP, you’ll have an outstanding potential to learn and experience a large variety of wireless audio, wireless video, fiber optics, wired and wireless intercom, networking and two-way radio equipment, and be able to learn new things every day. The entire engineering staff is incredibly knowledgeable and are exceptional leaders within the company. They are always willing to help anyone with any questions or problems they may experience and very good at teaching anything you’d want to know. Often, they’ll include technicians in the shop with products in development, which greatly increases their knowledge of how things work even more. The ability to travel and be the on-site Technician, for even the smallest of client events, allows the tech learn even more of the systems they build and test on a bench in a controlled environment, and see how they’re actually implemented in the field. The leaders of the company (some) are very genuine and often time work along side even the lowest of worker. This helps moral and shows that they actually care. Working at CP gives everyone amazing exposure to numerous technical focuses, most would never get to experience. Opportunity to work overtime is almost always available and they offer a mediocre health benefits plan. If an employee takes the initiative to learn more, the amount of work becomes limitless.
Cons
Some people in key leadership roles are not leaders, but bosses. Everyone is more successful when a solid team is together, management included. Oftentimes, a “my way or the highway” mentality is carried by some leadership and important opinions from workers are quickly disregarded. Due to an extremely understaffed shop, the workload put on the crew can be very overwhelming. Things get overlooked and extra hours need to be spent fixing problems that management usually creates. Plans are often discussed and put in place but never are reenforced so they are for moot. A lack of specific job duties for every position creates confusion and too many times, everyone is expected the be able to to everything. This is just not feesable and only obtainable over years.