Power Design reviews

Based on what I'm hearing from former and current employees, all the negative aspects of the company are still intact after all the talk about improving. This leads me to wonder how legitimate the positive reviews are. No workplace is perfect and to rate it as such is a tiny bit odd. When a company has a reputation that is known even by people whom have never worked for PDI, there has to be something negative to be said in any honest review. It's not hard to find handfuls of problems with PDI, many of which are echoed in the negative reviews you can see on Glassdoor. I can say that my compensation was very poor in contrast to my education and experience. When more and more responsibilities are added to your plate and the skill level you're required to have expands, you'd think raises would be a no-brainer. This is not the case. Raises were oddly arbitrary and ever changing in their frequency or amount ... if you were ever lucky enough to get one at all. The desires of both myself and fellow employees to grow outside of our job duties were not heard. When you combine low pay and no way to better yourself, a disillusioned employee is going to spawned from that. This would explain the high rate of turnover PDI experiences. An employee looking for more and who makes that known is not going to sit dormant and allow their personal career goals to be buried just because management has no clue on how to expand a department. I truly liked the people who I worked with. The co-workers were always professional, helpful and knowledgeable in my department. When you see such people get nowhere in PDI, you wonder if they are even looked at as the driving force behind the company's explosive growth. Management does not really appear to understand that the employees make the company and by not allowing them to blossom out of dead end positions only hurts PDI and its already grey reputation. There's no real reason to get into some details as they've been repeated often below. The culture feels flawed. Hiring young newcomers is great, but not when there are few veterans there to show them the tricks of the trade. One department felt like a fraternity and sorority with out of control libidos and egos. Once or twice a year it looked like the entire department was scrubbed out and a new batch of fresh graduates poured in for another repeat cycle. I've worked for quite a few companies and never have I had an experience like that at PDI. Some were positive and fun, but career wise, it was depressing. The job and struggles and stress it put me through did actually send me into a state of depression that I had to seek professional treatment for. Never have I had that happen at any job.

Very high turnover. CEO hires people based on their looks not qualifications. I had two Bucs cheerleaders sit next to me working as project engineers with education that had nothing to do with the job. Nice girls but dumb as rocks. People are promoted or fired based on looks and character, not abilities. The pay was pathetic. They did give me a raise three times during first year. But you have to push for it hard. CEO has a very short temper. Can fire people on the spot if you get an argument with him on a bad day. Saw a few senior managers fired that way. Overall, ok company for a quick 1-2 year stint out of college. You get experience, they get a low wage worker. Keep in mind, they are a SUB, not GC, for all those college grads, this is a step down.