Pros
Benefits were good at the time, however I hear they have since changed. Mid-level managers were quite good, and there was once a spirit of great teamwork within the company. If you are a strong schmoozer, you can have a long career with PTX.
Cons
Once Psion took over Teklogix, things began to quickly go downhill. Outside management was brought in between 2004 and 2006 that new little or nothing about mobile computing and the hardware industry, and began to make decisions based on their assumptions of the industry and their experience in other verticals. It was a disaster. Whereas Teklogix had a culture of hiring people who were competent and easy to work with, Psion has a culture of hiring people who don't have experience in mobile computing and have more of a get tough, hatchet-man mentality. Some of the inside administration people can make your life a living hell as a result. The current CEO, John Conoly cam in and demanded 30% profit margins on hardware, or they declined to make the sale and wouldn't pay the rep for it. This was during the height of the recession in 2008. Duh. Their margins went up all right- to the tune of losing several hundred million dollars in revenue and lots of customers who jumped to other vendors. Competitors shook their heads and wondered what the hell they were thinking. Taking their current senior management on a sales call was actually counterproductive- you did better leaving them out of the process than bringing them into competitive opportunities. It was often referred amongst the reps to "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory", and there are still funny stories that make the rounds about many of these sales calls. The first reviewer had it absolutely right- if you're willing to brown-nose the right people in the company, you can be a complete idiot- never making your numbers or putting out consistently poor products or shoddy work- and keep your job indefinitely. However, if you don't, you can be a top performer just doing your job and still be let go. Some of the best people they have were let go for reasons that no one to this day understands. How do you let people go who are near or above quota to keep those who barely exceeded 50%? Happens all the time there. So, if you're a good talker and are willing to brown nose to get ahead, PTX can be a fit for you. However, if you're a top performer and don't, it may not work out. For these and other reasons, in my humble opinion, It's only a matter of time before PTX is in a position where they will be acquired by either Intermec or Motorola for pennies on the dollar and the current management will drive them into the ground. Something has to change.
