The workforce seems to be a mirage. Seems like mostly hollow at the bottom and middle, then stacked with a FEW good seniors at the top who seem to carry all the burden and responsibility, and do the majority of the work.
Most of the really good engineers left years ago after the original sale of Hood Engineering. The rest left more recently around 3 to 4 years ago.
US owners seem to only care about employee's performance metrics, and returning maximum payback to shareholders.
US owners seem to take, take, and take everything from an employee then seem to spit them out when they're no longer useful OR if the employee seems to question upper management's authority or decision making. It seems to be very much modelled on the US Military's structure.
There seems to be only one answer given to US owners: "YES"
It seems that upper management is only concerned about saying "yes" to US owners, without any consideration to; current job market, employee satisfaction, employee retention, performance and capability of employees, etc, etc.
It seems that people who say "yes" are promoted up regardless of actual job performance. It seems that good performers are "forced out"
It seems that the company employs what I call "bait and switch" sales pitches to new clients. It seems to sell the client on a high performing senior, then seems to switch out the project work to very green juniors. It seems that most of the time these juniors burn through lots of budget, because they have no idea what they're doing, and the seniors are running around putting out fires everywhere. It seems that the PM asks the client for more money via a change order. I think this drives the clients ballistic, and they don't give any more work.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
For me, this is truly a horrible, soul crushing place to work.
I think, only those who are true self-hating masochists misanthropists can survive long term here.
It's by a couple orders of magnitude the absolute worst experience I've had in my almost 35 year working career--Including ALL part time jobs I had as a teenager.
Not much investment in employee professional development. Bad benefits package. Not much recognition.
