Meh... - Engineer EWIE Employee Review

2.0
Jul 29, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get to work at large manufacturing facilities such as Ford and interact with their engineers extensively. Also, you gain a lot of experience interacting with tooling vendor representatives.

Cons

It's not a very nimble company. They are still trying to catch up to their expansion into the coolant areas at dozens of manufacturing facilities. The focus on getting the coolant groups up and running has taken away from fine tuning the support applications that employees interact with on a daily basis. A lot of the things that should be in online database formats are thrown together in excel files. Also, they do a terrible job training new employees. There is no employee handbook with generalized work instructions for each job position or any of the software applications that employees use frequently throughout the day. These inefficiencies lead to a lack of conformity and knowledge about the correct process for tasks.

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5.0
Jun 2, 2026
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Pros

company is growing fast and has great customers to work with

Cons

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3.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Ewie is a decent company to work for. All of my direct managers have been wonderful people. There is also a wealth of knowledge available once meet some others within the company. Very stable. I feel that I have strong job security.

Cons

Raises, bonuses, and other compensation are lacking. 2-2.5% yearly raises just don't keep up with inflation. It also feels like they try everything they can to justify not giving you your full potential bonus. Lastly, the PTO scale is misleading. Talking to quite a few people both within, and outside of the company, the handbook makes it seem like you earn a third year of PTO after working here for three years. But as it turns out, you don't get an additional week of PTO until you've started your fifth year of employment. Upper management also offers very little support to site management. My original manager spent months begging for assistance with a uncooperative customer. We were just told to keep trying. Then when the end of the year came our bonuses were punished due to all the issues we tried to get support with.

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