Your experience within the company will vary depending on where you work. For instance, overtime in Montreal, for the engineers is paid at 1.5x hourly rate. In Ottawa, the same person would only get 1x hourly rate. Engineers in Montreal get per diem when travelling while in Ottawa it is receipts (to the per diem maximum) unless the contract for the customer specifies otherwise. I've had threats to cancel the Christmas break, and in another case requests to work it.
Training is expected to be funded by the employee, and on their own time (there is no training budget). And it is made part of the performance evaluation.
For the engineers, either combine the regular and Technical Track review process into one or get rid of one of them; look at ALL sites that implement it and make sure that it is either customized to the site or only contains things that are common to all.
Tool updates are either fast and furious or few and far between; that is on a project you may never change a tool (even after it is no longer supported by the vendor or the company stops paying maintenance on it) while there can also be a number of parallel tools in use (for instance, I've seen 4 different CM systems in the last year).
For software people, if you don't have a university degree, don't apply; your career will be limited to a junior (assuming you even get hired).
