Pros
- Good place to help build up experience for career/CV - Good exposure to different industry sectors medical, pharma, production. - A lot of bespoke machines and designs puts engineers into new experiences of testing, proof of principle projects - Exposure to advanced and new technologies - controls and robotics - Remote working brought in since Covid - drastically reduced the amount of wasteful meetings meaning more productivity. This needs to be kept to entice new engineers - Good flexibility if you need an hour or two off to do something as long as you work it back later in the week - Friendly colleagues and good connections within departments. Good diversity in departments - Good work/life balance as day finishes at 4.30
Cons
- Wages are just below average for experience and expected workload. It's worth noting that when requested there are no pay scale in place for current job roles - Company mindset is that it's a mechanical design company only - but it is slowly starting to realize it needs to support all engineering functions. - Employee Bonus stated as a benefit but it's not guaranteed and isn't based on how hard one works or how well you deliver projects over the year, so no real rewards to employees for getting projects over the line or deliver agreed yearly goals. Company investments affect it also. - Company career progression seems hard as it's decided by one or two that are not aware of employees contribution to projects. And it feels the policy is if you are doing a very good job in the position you are in why promote you as a reward as they may not be able to find a replacement. "If not broken don't fix it" mentality. - At interview stage the company benefits are sold as a long list but really most of them are not beneficial unless you are willing to invest something into it yourself - besides the free doctor visit and free parking! They value of these benefits should not be considered too heavily - No paternity pay for the two weeks entitlement - even though the vast majority of the company are male. Full Maternity pay was brought in last year.