Parametric Technology – “Declining benefits, pay seems a bit below satisfactory.”

Pros

Although benefits have weakened over the years, PTC still offers reasonably good benefits to employees. Folks are generally very talented and hard working, without excessive political infighting filtering down from upper management (I'm sure it exists, though).

Cons

As a mid-cap public company, it operates at the whim of investors. A missed quarterly target can easily result in layoffs just to keep shareholders happy. And it definitely has the big company feel - very hard to be agile.

Advice to Senior Management

The company's aggressive growth strategy and focus on financials can be dispiriting, especially when overly-aggressive targets can not be reached by employees pushing themselves to the limit.