Freedom, good and bad - Engineer Vulcan Wireless Employee Review

Get the freedom to design and get your hands dirty. Everyone wears many hats at this company, I learned a lot of new skills working at Vulcan. Competitive compensation. Reasonable benefits.

There is little freedom to work from home. Poor project estimation processes in place often result in schedule hardships.

This company is trying to manufacture everything including housings, circuit boards, and proprietary (closed standards) software for software defined space modems. The pro is that this means employees can (must, really) work within various technical areas simultaneously, which provides both deep and broad experience. Basically, the work is challenging, and therefor somewhat satisfying.

CEO lacks focus and doesn't usually know what he's doing. But he also doesn't listen to or trust anyone, so that's a very bad combo. The CEO doesn't understand software or systems engineering beyond a heavy focus on RF theory and electrical. This translates into poor decisions when he micromanages the software team, and flaky software practices result. Also, the CEO lacks strength in leadership. He'll openly reprimand people in front of the entire company for things they didn't even do wrong. And he's *very* manipulative, regularly fabricating lies about client requirements, or pretty much anything else. In short, the CEO and those he chooses for leadership roles, are untrustworthy, uncaring, manipulative, lying people who only care about their own salaries. Among various other issues which I won't detail here, the CEO is pretty severely stuck in the "Founder's Dilemma/Trap" area on Adizes Lifecycle of corporations. I'd steer clear of working here.