Pros
-Provided Health, Dental & Life Insurance effective from first day of work. -Education program is very good for technical personnel. -Good with following up on design issues and correcting design problems before they go out, provided you are working with a good project manager.
Cons
-Poor communication skills. The communcation skills of many of the engineering staff are very poor. Though this is a common industry problem, the company does not do enough to correct it. Courses in how to communicate with people should be mandatory through the education program and refresher courses given semi-annually. -Lack of Team work. You will find very few people who will work cooperatively with you here, unless you are working with corporate office location or a few of the other branch locations. Project managers and engineers like to hoard information and not pass it on until it comes up as an issue on a project. At that point be prepared to get "thrown under the bus" by your colleagues. That is a common practice. -Poor bonus program. Regardless of what is told to you in the intial interview, the bonus program is practically non-existant. It is not performance based, nor is it a percentage pay-out program. It is the equivalent of a Christmas gift. Also non-engineer personnel will be paid a different bonus than the engineers. -Inexperienced Engineers. Many of the engineers here are very young and/or fresh out of college. For many this is the first or only company they have ever worked for. Be careful! This leads many of them to beleive that there is only one way of doing things. -Lack of upward mobility. If you are looking for a place with promotion potential, then you probably want to keep on looking. For the engineers, the possibilities for promotion are pretty slim. If you are non-engineering personnel, the opprotunities are practically non-existant. You have the opprotunity of earning the title of "Senior" to your current job title, but that is about it.