Pros
The company designs and manufactures critical products for the healthcare and scientific industries. Most of the staff are really nice and approachable incl HR.
Cons
Company and its senior management are very set in their old ways in terms of how they run things. Working from home is forbidden, the infrastructure and facilities are so dated it really makes it a frustrating and demoralising place to work. The design office really lacks any sort of adequate management - basic engineering principles are completely thrown out of the window, hence why the term REWORK is repeatedly mentioned e.g. drawings are not checked, basic GD&T is not applied and there is no formal training offered - one literally has to learn-on-the-fly. There are no formal processes in terms of how things are designed, released and manufactured, excel spreadsheets dominate - truly COWBOY-style. Management does not take any feedback onboard and they don’t listen to their staff in order to improve things then act surprised as to why there is such a high rate of staff turnover. I really had been expecting so much more out of this company but there was nowhere to go in terms of changing things and any sort of opportunity for career progression is nothing but a pipe dream.