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InvoDane Engineering

Is this your company?

This company slowly chokes the life out of you. Do yourself a favor and move along. - Anonymous employee InvoDane Engineering Employee Review

1.0
Jul 13, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the people are nice and friendly. They occasionally have bagel or fruit day or a bbq. The concept of the company and the work itself is fine. The firm effectively has a monopoly on what they do in North America and makes millions in revenue each year. Flexible hours (core hours 10-3 with lunch from 12-1) is nice. This is a good place to go if you just want to put in your time, collect a paycheque and do as little actual work as possible. There are actually at least two employees that just walk around the property all day. I never saw them work once.

Cons

Be aware that there are many staff members who find it challenging to interact with this company's highest level of leadership. I ignored some of the harsher reviews on Glassdoor and figured it was just a couple of bad eggs. They're entirely accurate. I observed a lack of leadership skills and a lack of the ability to effectively interact with others in a business environment. It was my experience that the highest levels of leadership were offensively impolite; I observed the work of myself and my colleagues downplayed consistently. The highest levels of leadership are hesitant or even adverse to investing into staff development or tools and resources. I witnessed sexism in the workplace against my female colleagues on several ovcasions. Unfortunately HR is powerless to support the employees. The company pays about 30% under the market standard. There is a lot of micromanagement from the most senior levels of leadership at this firm. I do not believe that level of leadership is interested in or open to employee feedbacks. I frequently witnessed suggestions be shut down until the suggesting staff become frustrated or a "yes" person and just keep their heads down and do what they are told. There are some good people working here who were A players but they've been suppressed into being B players at best after bending under the will of the most senior level of leadership. If you don't have to work directly with the this level you might be able to hide a little, but if you work with that level at any frequency, prepare to have your mind go numb. You do not want to work here.

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1.0
Jul 22, 2015
Anonymous contractor
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Interesting work. The company was taking a diverse range of projects which is unusual for a industry specific engineering company. There is a lot of concept design work here which is not easy to find in Toronto.

Cons

The owner is verbally abusive and has a temper. This extends to even his favored employees. I'm a manager of engineers and designers myself now and could not imagine treating people the way he did. I learned a lot of what-not-to-do lessons here. There seemed to be no correlation between quality of work and treatment. You never knew what small thing would set him off. High quality talent simply moves on in this environment. I'm used to 70-80hr weeks and this was expected here; however, as a contractor you are paid by the hour and this should include OT. Billing for OT was not allowed and was met with another temper tantrum. The owner was dishonest. I have a family to support and was concerned about being laid off when the work dropped off. I had several offers but stayed because I was assured that I was going to be hired outright shortly; then, I was terminated as soon as the project was complete. The owner has a hygiene problem. I don't know if this is something that he eats but the smell is sickening. This sounds petty but it became an issue. The owner creates an uncomfortable environment by showing inappropriate pictures of his wife (topless breastfeeding etc) I'm a supporter of women's rights and see breastfeeding as natural; however, we don't need to see pictures in a design review meeting.

12
5.0
Jan 26, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Able to work independently but still get help from coworkers as needed. Overall fairly enjoyable

Cons

Butted heads with some of the more senior employees who are stakeholders as well. Management changed and promises were broken

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