Eugene Office Hemorrhaging Good Engineers -- Get In, Make Money, Get Out - Engineer USNR Employee Review

2.0
Jan 25, 2018
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Pros

- You get to live in Eugene - If you're competent, you can get all of your own work done quickly then teach yourself new things related to projects and then leave a little early -- this isn't by design though, it's just because management doesn't communicate/listen to their engineers enough to know the difference. - Some of the people are decent - Management lets employees get exercise throughout the day

Cons

- No matter how much you contribute to USNR's bottom line, you will not be rewarded beyond a yearly 3% nominal increase -- barely covers inflation - Every good engineer not tied down by family has left the Eugene office, with a few exceptions. The remaining engineers are senior engineers pulling a pay check by babysitting legacy projects that don't require any actual work anymore. - The management sticks engineers in a cube farm in a sunless room. This isn't healthy, especially in the PNW - Absolutely no career track for engineers - Antagonism between offices. Some engineers refuse to talk with one another - Whole power structure feels parasitic, with 1/3 people actually moving the company forward and 1/3 doing some work and 1/3 just being parasites - Massive technical debt in terms of poorly documented, buggy legacy code and complete absence of training for new engineers leading to yet more poorly documented, buggy legacy code

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5.0
Feb 20, 2025
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Pros

Not Micromanaged. Treated with dignity and respect. Somewhat flexible hours

Cons

Isolation on projects. Each day is predictable to a T which makes the days quite long a tedious

1.0
Sep 30, 2025
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Pros

Travel all over and direct teammates are some great people. Middle management is also a group of solid individuals who understand what it takes but it stops there.

Cons

Benefits suck, your paycheck is your only source of income. No bonus programs, no profit sharing, no stock options, no pensions etc. Most employees are salary and working a lot more than 40 hours without compensation and rely on a gentlemen’s agreement for comp time after traveling. If your role requires travel you are trading your entire life for a career that at most will pay you in the ballpark of 150k a year if your hourly and willing. If you are not aware you can make that money and be at home every night with the same skill set - it’s not that difficult to find (and you can achieve this in the southern market where cost of living is dramatically lower). A family medical plan will cost over 500 a month I previously worked at Amazon and paid $27 a week for better coverage. There is a reason most of the controls engineers are in their 20’s, they don’t have families or the experience to warrant better pay. HR is a joke tell Wendy and Addison I said hi!

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