Low pay – They pay less compared to other companies for all job titles – test engineer, senior test engineer, manager, director, senior director, etc
High turnaround – employees usually stay for 6 months or 1 year and move on to a different company due to low pay, organizational instability, toxic work environment, poor management, stress, poor work life balance and poor work place culture.
Frequent layoffs – layoffs are common since the company doesn’t have a good market share with stable gaming suppliers. They mostly cater to small gaming companies who are already in financial distress. Few big gaming companies give some left over work to keep the relationship with the lab. And that’s barely enough to keep the business running.
You will get unfit, unqualified managers who lack management experience due to extremely high employee turnaround and low pay.
They are constantly understaffed. They hire engineers with no experience for low pay. As a result their service lacks quality, accuracy and so many other factors a business needs to be successful.
There is no overtime pay. They give PTO in exchange for the overtime. Since they are understaffed you won’t get a time to use your PTO. It will end up getting wasted at the end of the year.
No bonus or yearly salary increases to keep up with inflation.
Company doesn’t have money to invest in software and office equipment. They use buggy in house software or Microsoft office for everything. You will have to do everything legacy/manual way when other companies do the same thing with software.
You will not get employee training. This is mostly due to company being understaffed, high turn around and lacking engineers who know what they are doing.
This Company has a lot off issues and I would stay away from it if possible. It will save you a lot of headache.