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Crestron Electronics

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Losing stability and direction - Hardware Engineer Crestron Electronics Employee Review

2.0
May 26, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Overall product line is very diverse and still has wow/cool factor when you see systems come together. Customers and dealers love it especially when the products actually work. Many different areas to participate for those with engineering and technical backgrounds. If you want a design role, and you're competent and thick-skinned, there is generally still a lot of opportunity here.

Cons

Company is having organizational challenges after years of poorly planned and structured growth. Many of the more tenured people are expecting some problems in the near future. Still has the mom and pop "we'll say yes to anything" mantra. That's great for dealer trust and commitment except when you're grossly over-committed and understaffed. Crestron is legendary for screwing up the delivery date and quality of a great product to accommodate an obscure request from one customer. Across the four or five core design domains there are approximately 30 sub-departments. Most still have an above-average experience, maybe two are exemplary, and about 6 are getting toxic. If you don't know the nature of the department you would get hired into, I'm not sure I would not give up a decent job to try your chances here. Grad opportunities are hit and miss, you'll probably still learn more here than other places around, but you can easily stagnate if you don't land a better role.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Relaxed. Management understands traditional AV industry is saturated and is trying hard to pivot the company into new direction. Whether it will work or not is to be seen.

Cons

This place really needs to re-evaluate how they hire and retain engineers. Across all disciplines, there are many senior level engineers who have no idea what they are doing. Some lack such basic engineering skills and knowledge which makes one wonder if they had proper higher level education or lied about their past career experiences on their resume. Most of them are genuinely nice people, but they are really dragging down productivity.

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