A sad ending to what was once an amazing place to be.
Pros
A great place to work if you want to be a nobody to the bureaucrats. Be sure to fit their cookie cutter version of what an engineer is. Together... repeat after me... "We are all unique individuals."
Cons
CPI's acquisition of Cummins-Allison was a logical one as the Cummins-Allison products complimented CPI's product line. The acquisition was by no means viewed as a hostile one, and the hopes were that CPI would help Cummins-Allison continue its record growth by continuing to let Cummins-Allison do what it did best, innovate, invent, design, and create profitable products. CPI has successfully managed to bulldoze a privately owned, engineering-centric, heavily R&D invested, industry leader, and innovation powerhouse into a mere echo and gutted version of what made Cummins-Allison such a great place to be an engineer. Quite frankly, CPI does not understand the technology they now wish to leverage into profits. What was once an engineer and inventor's dream job, one which fostered innovation, recognized and promoted true creativity, has been dissolved almost overnight. In its place is now a cold, purely efficient profit machine, bureaucratically laden with forms and check-boxes which micromanage the products, projects, directors, and teams...all the way down to the individual engineer.
