Pros

All engineers have nice offices with quite working conditions. Employees at audio portions of the company are very passionate about the technology and music in general. Most employees are users of the hardware and software that they create.

Cons

Over the past 18 months, the executive management has been cutting costs mostly by laying off US workers and moving jobs to Kiev. Over 50% of the company will be overseas very soon.

When the video and audio engineering groups work together on projects, the efforts are dysfunctional at best and completely adversarial at worse.

In the process of the outsourcing, executive management has completely demoralized the employees. There has been a voluntary mass exodus of engineers which has caused significant brain drain from the company.

Many key engineering contributors have left the company carrying their knowledge with them. The remaining engineers are left to figure out how to build, maintain, and resolve bugs in the software.

Advice to Senior Management

Top executives should listen to and work with their employees in helping implement off-shoring. The current plan of forcing engineers to shift key technologies off-shore to engineers with no domain expertise is only driving away US engineers.