Good Company - Software Engineer Co-Op Mayflower Communications Employee Review

Great opportunity to help contribute to keeping our service members safe. Very small company, where what you do will get you noticed. A likeminded team in every sense of the word. If you bring the right attitude, the job is what you make it.

High visibility isn't for everyone. Company is well known for not being a country club.

The product Mayflower makes is critical to national defense. The Director of Business Development understands the mission, the customers, and the niche roll that the companies offerings fill. The test team is one of the best I have ever worked with.

Turnover is high. There is a core team of 10 or so and the rest of the staff turns with the average tenure being about 2 years. Some stayed as little as a few weeks. The VPs and the Owner need to be the smartest people in the room. They don't treat their staff or the customer with respect. Meetings start late and go long. Meetings often turn into shouting matches. There is no culture of honesty or integrity. Bad test results or finding issues gets you yelled at. Concerns are ignored. Key positions were not filled to the point where it was impossible to make forward progress on projects. Management is not interested in providing resources and infrastructure for their team to succeed. They seem uninterested in innovation. They've made one product and seem happy to ride that wave until the competition beats them. The company's test equipment is like a time capsule from the 90s. The do not have the ability to work with modern, high speed, digital or analog signal processing. They have no design process. Everything feels like a couple of people messing around in their basement. R&D projects are not assembled per instructions.