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Certified Power Reviews

2.7

53% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)

Chad Trinkner

100% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

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13 reviews
1.0
31 Mar 2018
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Pros

Nice people - but most of them are gone now. Location of company is good close to Chicago area and nice suburbs - but office areas are outdated... Cannot think of anything else.

Cons

Management people don’t have engineering experience - lack of capabilities to grow big engineering Companies. Lack of communicating vision and goals to employees. No focus on engineering .

1.0
11 May 2017

Stay clear of this place

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Pros

I've put some long thought into what the positive in this company was and I've come up empty handed.

Cons

Lack of management and communication. Hard for employees to know future of company if the top level management doesn't even know. Over the past years the engineering department had more than half the group quit, none of which were replaced If that tells you where the companies at. The work culture here is not good. The building is dated.

1.0
21 Sept 2014
Recommend
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Pros

There is an average paycheck.

Cons

Don't plan on a raise. Where you start will be where you finish. Insurance is poor. The vacation policy is arbitrary, to put it kindly. The 401k is literally the worst that I have ever seen . Middle management is constantly back biting, protecting turf, and not working together as a team. They have been purchased yet again and loaded down with additional debt, I worked in Engineering at Certified Power for 14 months. The building is cold, drafty and noisy. The offices are junk. Overtime is mandatory and unpaid. A tiny group. There is little understanding of what an embedded software engineer does for a living. Do not look to management for technical direction. You will be on your own. Schedules will be dictated. Do not expect to be rewarded. I saw engineers who had performed absolute miracles receive minimal pay raises. If a project was late due to a management miscalculation, it was not uncommon for an engineer to take the blame. Personally, I received ordinary treatment, at least until the end. They promised better treatment. Didn't happen. I was a contractor in all but name. When the project was over, so was I. As of this writing, nine months after my exit, I have not yet been replaced. Nor has my position been advertised. Certified Power hires two types of engineers: fresh outs and refugees from hard times. Don't leave a regular gig to go there. And if you must go, keep looking. Don't spend your career years there. The place is dysfunctional. If they can take advantage of you, they will.

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