Woodward, generally stable - Software Engineer Woodward Employee Review

3.0
May 19, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Fairly stable environment. 401k benefits and medical benefits are really good. It's pretty laid back if you can get on the bosses good side, though he's somewhat of a control freak.

Cons

Management is not great. The software department is generally senior heavy and there's little opportunity for growth. Most of the work is old technology. 70% of the work is for test engineering, so if you're a design engineer it's likely you won't get the interesting design work. The work environment provides little to no privacy so it's very difficult to feel comfortable at work which is very problematic when your job requires you to focus and use your brain.

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