Robotics Engineering Mess - Sr. Mechanical Engineer SharkNinja Employee Review

2.0
Sep 30, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Can put out light CAD work and have a hand in products that hit the shelves in a year (if you're lucky) -Peers tend to be bright, fun, and friendly

Cons

-Management is not in touch, and makes no good faith efforts to be in touch -They are *constantly* losing good engineers. The running theme is forcing engineers to be powerpoint junkies, and do 10% actual mechanical design, if that. -The worst managers will stay (minus Lloyd, hes great) and get promoted to director. The worst directors will get promoted to VP. Once you're a manager, its politics, not merit. The ambition runs wild in middle management, and its really all about placating Mark, the president, with powerpoint slides and optimistic timelines. -90% of the time, they'll reserve the bump up to Sr. if they think you're on the precipice of quitting. Good luck making it beyond that. -They'll take advantage of you with salary and raises unless you fight for it -Relentless meetings, even if you're at the bottom of the totem pole. Poor middle management brings the whole team into nighttime china meetings

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Some good peers that make the days slightly bearable with the group chat of how ridiculous and hellish the place is

Cons

The speed and agility are just code names for ceo paranoia and inability to make and stick to decisions. Toxic environment perpetuated by the lifers. Entire departments are pit against each other. A culture of public shaming and blaming with a side of discrimination and misogyny. It is absolute chaos and makes you regress professionally because after a while all you do is “yes” the ceo and do things the Shark way which is essentially the Mark way and 0% what other orgs would do or what you learned about/experienced previously. Micromanaging starts from the very top. Product issues daily. People cry daily. Ridiculously high turnover. So much bullying and favoritism. Extremely top heavy and lots of VPs+ to attend meetings but not enough people to actually work. Those in leadership are also unprofessional and liabilities. No work life balance. No respect. Backstabby. Even the meeting are aggressive and called hacks, red teams, sledge hammer approach etc. The best way to be successful here is to be a super caffeinated visible sycophant that is fine with no life outside of work. People note the high comp but it’s not worth it and is not enough compared to the hours actually worked and all the stress and anxiety that comes with it. The moral and mental health here are the lowest I’ve ever seen.

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