EFI Reviews

Pros

- Flexible working Hours
- Work from home options
- One of the Product based companies and a R&D center
- Outings

Cons

- Pay (Haven't given hike in 2 years and the 3rd year hike is too less compared to market)
- Lack of technical skills from superiors
- Lack of planning in the Products release
- No on site opportunities

Advice to Senior Management

- Management should take care of Emplayees
- Reform should be done in Policies to be in favor of employees

Pros

There are good opts for growth

Cons

Difficulty getting direct access to customers.

Advice to Senior Management

More proactively solicit ideas from all employees

Pros

I work with good people.
My job has the potential to be both interesting and challenging
Benefits package is decent
Travel opportunities are nice

Cons

No pay increase in several years is an absolute de-motivator.
Company meetings expound on our great sales for the last couple of quarters, but very little reward for employees
Management gives information, but they don't really communicate or know their employees or seem to have any sensitivity to our needs

Advice to Senior Management

Get in touch with the people who work for you

Pros

Great location in Lakes region
Good about time off, working remotely
Good funding, tools & equipment - you get what you need to do the job
If you don't like the supervisors they change often

Cons

No local decision-making power
Management changes every 6-12 months - constant changes in direction and priorities
Massive turnover - hardly anyone left with more than 5 yrs there - no experienced repair techs left, best salespeople joined competition, hundreds of unfinished projects
Teamwork atmosphere gone - back-stabbing or kissing up is the way to survive
Product quality and innovation tanking - the best talent departed long ago
Long-time customers are switching to other vendors

Advice to Senior Management

You handed control of the ship to people who don't know the waters - and their punishing the crew for their own incompetence. Pay less attention to hitting the numbers and more on doing the right thing. Your talent and customers will come back if you stop acting like Tommy Boy with a new sale.

Pros

Management open communication
Projects are challenging

Cons

No pay raises for promotion, only title change

Advice to Senior Management

Might as well relocating the company headquarter to India

Pros

flexible hours working at efi

Cons

company is cheap, my bosses boss is cheap.

Advice to Senior Management

workers need a raise too.

Pros

good industry and good technology. Engineering staff and mgnt works well with QA. good working hours. there is pretty good communication between most of the teams.

Cons

No bonuses or recognition and not rewarded for good hard work. No good avenues for advancement. Nepotism for most, which leaves out people trying and working hard.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer good/fair assessment on all employees when the do good and NOT just when they are doing something wrong. Give ample warning when there is a problem or issue that is serious enough to let someone go and do not surprise them without any warning.

Pros

Good for printing domain graduates. Will get good platform to start career.

Cons

Not at all favourable for people from other domain.

Advice to Senior Management

Put in more efforts for R&D. Be employee friendly.

Pros

Excellent place to learn corporate politics.
Flexible hours and good life/work balance by some managers.
Great cultural location in the Strip District.

Cons

No opportunity for advancement within the development and quality assurance arenas. Repeated quarters of layoffs trying to maintain profitability set an environment of unease and unrest and clearly indicated that upper management put share-holders far and above their own resources that used to drive their innovation. No financial investment in education reimbursement. Communication by management AND executives is poor at best, mostly it's none existent.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at successful companies (Fortune 100/500) and their relationship with their employees you will see a stark and obvious difference between your approach and their approach. Get more in touch with your resources (yes the human ones) and their capability your currently far too disconnected, and rely far too heavily on management that is adept at exploiting your leadership weaknesses and keeping you mis-informed to maintain their positions during all these reductions in force.

Pros

you can print anything for free :)

Cons

they will not help you to grow your skill set, they just want to get things done ASAP. Senior management do not know how to improve productivity or moral.

Advice to Senior Management

Too many managers or directors, no clear path for lower level people to advance, no clear vision about the product, do not give time for people to learn new things, should not just focus on cost-cutting (move jobs to oversea). They should give time to employee to innovate and develop a better product