Where Talent Goes To Die - Mechanical Design Engineer USNR Employee Review

2.0
Oct 23, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Immediate co-works were talented, experienced, positive, and supportive.

Cons

Your performance will be determined on how fast you complete a set a drawings compared to the last guy, not the quality of your work or how it helps the team or company as a whole. The manager has almost no clue what is happening in his own department and there is zero leadership. I was told I would be challenged and gain a lot of great experience but my greatest challenge was trying to stay awake at the keyboard and after one year the learning all but dried up. There is no R&D or innovation in the department, your hands will be clean but your engineering soul will shrivel and dry up. But hey this is just my experience in this department, I did made friends in other departments that had a much better experience so please consider that when reading this review.

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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
Recommend
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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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