Same problems for over a decade. Company never learns from past mistakes and keeps repeating them
Pros
Very bright and talented engineering staff. Great people in manufacturing. A lot of the former senior staff (before the acquisition) were also pretty cool people. Abundant opportunities for technical problem-solving. Free coffee.
Cons
Extremely low pay relative to the work you're asked to do. I made less than 95% of the people in my field while working here, despite having qualifications that should have earned me a much higher compensation. This is a recurring theme in many other reviews posted here. As your work responsibilities and duties increase, your pay either does not increase at all, or increases so little that you're still making way below the market rate for just one of the 10 different jobs they're having you do. Environment can get pretty toxic when employees raise concerns about the company's ongoing, decades-long mismanagement of projects, appointment of unqualified personnel, incorrect application of technologies, etc. Instead of taking your feedback seriously they typically go behind your back to HR and turn it into an elementary school type of drama. HR are never on your side (although that's the case at every company) Management also do not communicate anything to many of us. Only a handful of staff at the company are ever aware of anything at the same time. Usually, most of the company's projects are sprung on us as a surprise at the last minute, and often times we don't even learn about projects until long after they've been completed or scrapped. Management do not communicate changes concerning who's managing projects, what the status and development goals of those projects are, etc. Those changes just happen without anyone's knowledge behind closed doors, leading to mass panic, chaos and confusion. Management also consistently ignore feedback from qualified personnel and consistently do things wrongly, resulting in neverending problems, and constant distress for both staff and customers alike. Systems are constantly failing and falling apart because management do not know how to run them correctly, and refuse to appoint someone who does (or actively interfere with said person's ability to do so by presenting them with nonsensical restrictions and bad guidance)