Pros
Cutting edge, challenging work environment Overtime is very available and pretty mandatory There is a great deal of travel
Cons
- more managers than workers in many cases - management always seeking to find an angle to look better to Europe - managers and leads with no industry experience that decide policy against process - retaliation is very real if a manager feels slighted in any way despite policy - reviews are conducted by using an employee photograph and the management group deciding how someone is going to do prior to employee inputs are even received - reviews are on a curve and are a popularity contest - lack of advancement opportunities - salary increases fall far behind inflation and are minimal at best - Bonuses are based on stretch goals that are difficult or impossible to meet which allows the company that is making record profits to minimize bonuses to employees in the US - Attrition is high and getting higher. Experienced employees are leaving and getting higher salaries and more work life balance elsewhere. - schedule of work is too aggressive and created in a vacuum with a too small employee base to accomplish which stresses the engineers still working