This is a bad company to work at. It’s highly bureaucratic and managers are often awful. Engineering is mostly contracted out, and you “review” the work…really rubber stamp it. Engineering decisions are made by a few…those few will let contractors make the decisions for them…and you will end up not practicing a whole lot of actual engineering at this company. Professional engineering licenses are not required or respected. Managers are often incompetent and put in charge of departments or teams in which they have little or no experience in the work the group does. They rotate department managers now and again. Blame game goes on here a lot. Also, indecision among management is common so they won’t have to take responsibility if they made the wrong decision. They then make you take responsibility to “drive to completion” the work because you cannot wait so long for them to make a decision. You make the decision for them and take all blame of it’s wrong. Management does this by destroying people’s performance review, and veterans are forced to move departments into new jobs. Do that or you better quit if a manager goes after you here. Very unfair, and they didn’t promote often or give good raises to engineers in my department. Pay is low for CA, especially the Los Angeles area high cost of living, and benefits were scaled back late 2017 from a pension to a 401k and less health benefits and less time off. This is from a company that makes hundreds of millions of dollars in pure profit every year, guaranteed by the CPUC. Yet, they chose shareholders over employees. Political DEI nonsense thrives here, too. Lots of people with thick accents work here and not a whole lot of people without an accent working here. So, suspicious hiring practices. Management often hiring friends or people from same ethnicity from foreign countries like they’re from. Avoid this company. It’s not worth it. Toxic.
