Pros
-Can put out light CAD work and have a hand in products that hit the shelves in a year (if you're lucky) -Peers tend to be bright, fun, and friendly
Cons
-Management is not in touch, and makes no good faith efforts to be in touch -They are *constantly* losing good engineers. The running theme is forcing engineers to be powerpoint junkies, and do 10% actual mechanical design, if that. -The worst managers will stay (minus Lloyd, hes great) and get promoted to director. The worst directors will get promoted to VP. Once you're a manager, its politics, not merit. The ambition runs wild in middle management, and its really all about placating Mark, the president, with powerpoint slides and optimistic timelines. -90% of the time, they'll reserve the bump up to Sr. if they think you're on the precipice of quitting. Good luck making it beyond that. -They'll take advantage of you with salary and raises unless you fight for it -Relentless meetings, even if you're at the bottom of the totem pole. Poor middle management brings the whole team into nighttime china meetings