Great co-workers - terrible management and work culture
Pros
The co-workers here are very warm, caring and legitimately fun people. Technically, the company is exceptional with many talented and highly technical people. The facility has room to grow as business demands. Excellent benefits package. Management and Engineering puts in long hours.
Cons
The management (Board of Directors) are cold and rude - bordering on socially inept. The company is CHEAP...would much rather have inefficient, antiquated tools and systems (and pay engineers to maintain them) than invest in infrastructure. Talk about a dog and pony show...when customers come to visit and tour the clean room, the office staff (engineering, administration, etc) are forced to dress up and pretend to be busy in production to provide the illusion of a much larger/busier company. They will try to sell you that they are an over-achieving small company with large financial backing - in reality they are a stuck-up dictatorship being run by someone who would be successful if only he could do everything himself. They will try to hire you on the cheap, and it you get more from them than they want to pay you initially, they will be rude to you and constantly remind you that they do not think you are up to their standard. Forget about any sort of on-boarding process... 9-10 hour days are the "17 pieces of flair"; in other words, the bare minimum