Stay Away from this Place - Mechanical Design Engineer WSA Employee Review

1. Highly reactive (as opposed to proactive) marketing team that only knows how to follow competitors (much better ones like Sonova/Phonak) 2. Mechanical R&D work is extremely repetitive, boring and heavy on CAD. Not much of real engineering done but alarmingly people see drafting as the most important core technical skill as an engineer. Overall, it is 50% CAD, 10% tolerance stack-ups and 40% re-doing work based on last minute whims of other departments. Mechanical design engineer here is basically a glorified drafter. 3. Management is extremely indecisive and way too aggressive on cost cutting. Perhaps the new management is better. Only time will tell. 4. There are some people in the company who think they know better than everyone else about everything. This makes the environment very toxic. 5. Very poor and outdated softwares and processes used probably due to cost. Doesn’t feel like a company geared for Industry 4.0. 6. Asian style management. Boss has the last say and the whole team is terrified of the boss. Some mentors even insist on preparing and rehearsing for weekly team update meetings with management.