Poor management and no upward mobility opportunities - Engineer Design Group (MO) Employee Review

I had a Great experience overall

There are No cons to report

Diverse Set of Services and Client portfolio. They are heavily food/beverage and biopharm. All industrial no commercial. Wide range of verticals such as a the packaging system group, controls group, validation group, construction group. There’s a lot avenues to grow. You get added pay for working on client sites. They shift around resources to keep people employed like downturns such as the Great Recession or the COVID Recession. For about 85% of my tenure, it was a great place place and one of the best places I had been. The other 15% made it feel so awful that it outweighed the good.

They more than doubled their staff during my time and seem to lost their way of Bob Chapman’s Everybody Matters and become more typical corporate politics. Don’t get stuck in the staff augmentation roles. They’re ok for short duration but after a while they lose site of what you can do and eventually fall into being a number and name on a page. They don’t fire, but it’s known that if your assignments get worse, they’re hoping you leave. Not really transparent and discussing that the paths are really in alignment. In the several months before and after my departure, I saw roughly 10 other people choose to depart which is much higher than I had seen in all my years prior. If you have good experience in industries outside their bread and butter, it’s very difficult to bring that in. Especially in major metropolitan areas that have wide industries beyond food/beverage and biosciences. The on-site bonus is nice but it’s pennies on the dollar if you work a lot of overtime (which isn’t compensated).