Many bu's are like working at a contracting agency - Engineering Director Flex Employee Review

4.0
Aug 28, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The people and engineering / manufacturing processes. As long as customers are paying for you directly or selling a lot of the products you are supporting, the middle management and fellow employees are generally good-natured, smart, and honorable. All of my managers were smart people with good integrity. However, there was a lot of turnover with my managers.

Cons

Engineering job security. CM's don't make their own products and have very low margins, so an engineer's employment is entirely dependent on their particular customer's product success with Flex. Should the customer move Flex sites, cancel the product, or move their business to a competitor, your job will be in great jeopardy. Most of the VP's don't understand or know how to sell engineering capability. If a customer leaves, executive leadership won't keep you & your team around for 6 months to find another customer. Too expensive and no margin to pay for the lulls. Like a contract services company, Flex hires and lets go of employees more frequently.

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5.0
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Pros

The pay is good with benefits

Cons

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2.0
May 15, 2026
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Pros

Health, dental, vision, and 401(k) were quite good.

Cons

Flex tolerates a toxic work culture from their most senior leaders. My director, literally, yelled at me daily, usually throughout the day. He physically grabbed me and forced me in the direction he wanted me to move. He threatened to fire me or replace me at least once a week. I went to the then director of HR who did absolutely nothing. After she was let go I went to her successor who told me there was no record of me speaking with HR before. And she did nothing. Unable to tolerate the work environment, I left. The company doesn't take safety seriously. We had shelving collapse resulting in an employee needing medical attention. The person tasked with designing and building storage has no training, no mechanical background, and no analysis is being performed to validate if the storage can hold 1,000+ pounds. There's no budget for professionally designed storage and, again, I was threatened for raising this as a concern. I learned today this same director is continuing to use me as a scapegoat despite me no longer working there.

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