balance - Field Engineer FM Employee Review

4.0
Sep 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Good bit of free time as a field engineer if you are smart. Use it for profit or pleasure. The company if flexible with your personal life. When working in office you can arrive late or go home early as needed as long as you get your work done. Good benefits and 401K plus modest pension.

Cons

Management are often just promoted engineers. Fondness for tedious and extremely voluminous instructions, and as engineers, for sticking to the letter of them. Not very creative. Work is always getting more complicated, complex and regulated.

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5.0
Apr 17, 2026
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Pros

Good company, fantastic work life balance and people there are really nice

Cons

salary is okay but not the best compared with the other big tech companies

2.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

* Great business model at the foundation * Solid compensation program: Base salary + bonus * Sustained high profitability over the long term * Stable employement * Pension Plan

Cons

* Extremely hierarchical and regimented * Promotions based on favortism rather than true merit. Employees are precategorized and stigmatized on their ability for future career progression. * Extremely focused on metrics and internal objectives. This leads to box checking, cutting corners and bending rules to meet the numbers. * Extremely heavy workload. No work-life balance. * Management doesn't really incorporate employee feedback; they pretend to to check a box. * Quality of job suffers to keep up with quantity. Everything is becoming data driven and the data is often wrong. Enormous pressure to hit a button and accept at face value whatever the system spews out. * Our CEO builds fancy gold plated office buildings that aren't needed and pulled the plug on hybrid work to justify the investment in the real estate.

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