Bose Reviews

Pros

You get to work on and experience great products. Managers, technical leads and coworkers are all competent and you can learn from them. The pay is pretty good.

Cons

Code for the wearable products is written in C so not a lot of opportunity to develop skills with an object oriented language. Speaker code is written in C++ so better opportunity there.

Pros

I liked their work-life balance.

Cons

I did not like their campus.

Pros

Strong engineers with tons of experience

Cons

There are a number of people, especially within engineering that have climbed the ladder due to tenure rather than skills. These folks were put in charge of programs and responsible for decisions they were unqualified to make. Bose has a great lifestyle with work/life balance, but it’s age has shown for a while. There’s a clear lack of diversity, people are hanging on to what it used to be in the 90s, and management is so-so. There are still some incredible engineers there, but talent from other functions have clearly found opportunities elsewhere and left.

Pros

Good company culture, and good people. Employee discount program You can learn about 'sound'

Cons

Becoming legacy Remaining in the old days

Pros

Awesome campus and company run events. Really emphasize individuals to be creative

Cons

Normal corporate politics annoying to maneuver

Pros

Great place to work with excellent work life balance.

Cons

Big corporate machine so lots of red tape.

Pros

respectful, actually very nice people in general. I've never encountered drama or back stabbing behavior like at other companies. Free audio hardware. Smart people (in the past).

Cons

Bad engineering. Seniority is the only thing that matters for advancement. I've seen jr engineers picking up the slack for their lvl 3 or 4 peers. It makes jrs very salty to make half of their incompetent peers and the bad seniors very with no motivation to improve. Until the mass layoffs the past few years, it seemed nobody was let go for being bad at their job. They would always figure something out or rotate you to another dept. Bose engineering was basically one big works program. Good if you were bad, terrible if you were competent. Non-sensical decisions seemed to be everywhere, with no repurcussions for the idea's originators. IE not knowing how to evaluate good talent, leading to not having engineers on hand to execute pretty straightforward apps and services, hiring contractors for 700k a head to do the work, then halting all work and firing contractors, as the budget predictably runs out. The saddest thing is that a lot of decent people loved the company and tried to do everything in their power to keep the legacy alive. I knew of engineers and managers who took a lot of flack for pushing back against absolutely non-sensical decisions. People slowly trickled out after realizing it was a futile effort until eventually there was nobody left to keep the torrent of bad decisions back.

Pros

Company culture, exciting work, lots to learn

Cons

Many changes in the company direction

Pros

Some of the technologies used are cool

Cons

The management style and attitude toward people is the worst by far

Pros

Great team to work with, fun atmosphere, competitive

Cons

Do not have any cons about this company