Pros
Projects are interesting and challenging Work with commerical softwares Good place to gain experience and then go where the grass is greener Benefits are descent
Cons
Not an American company, HQ based in Singapore Inability to retain and acquire talent HR does not post job openings to get experienced engineering, sends emails to entice us to look for talent for them Always acquiring "freshers", engineers fresh out of college Experienced engineers then must teach and accelerate the learning curve for the "freshers" Training is frowned upon because it affects the applied ratio Basically we're just programmed robots to essentially do similar jobs all the time Profit driven managers Yearly assesment is based on KRA's where a spreadsheet keeps track of your projects Spreadsheet is only as useful if your manager completes it as you complete your projects, since spreadsheet is password protected and read-only engineer can't really utilize it. Promotion of incompetent engineers to team leads/project managers Poor decision making from senior management Organization stucture constantly changes Some managers do not communicate efficiently and can be condescending, rude, and back-stabbing Center manager seems to not be concentrating on the entire center, but rather still wants to do his old job Some managers are afraid to communicate with the customer. A question that should be a couple minute phone call or webex turns into a elaborate presentation that doesn't get sent to the customer, but ends up being shown during the weekly status meeting. Not only has time and money been wasted, at the end the engineer gets the blame not the project leader/manager. Some project leaders can't think for themselves, they need a buddy "tied" to their side Inability of some team leaders/project managers to utilize experienced engineers to sit in on important internal or customer meetings. Retaliation in some situations