Flex reviews

The company has a low profit margin (somewhere in the 2 to 3% range). As a consequence, it operates very lean and this has a direct impact on resource availability and work life balance. Work life balance can get seriously out of whack. It depends what is your position in the company. At the manufacturing sites, for instance, the MEs and PMs are driven pretty hard. Very long hours. Very thin on resources. As a global PM, there can be a lot of travel (often international) involved, varying widely from 20-30% to close to 90%. Keeping tabs on programs overseas also means long days and late night calls with overseas facilities. Continuously changing company, always in some state of flux. The organizations within the company seem to undergo continuous changes with large changes (re-orgs) every few years Compensation is lower than you would see at Google or other Tech company.

Hours of endless calls at night with teams in Asia, and endless travel to Asia all in economy class. 12-16 hours days are the norm as is waking up to 200 emails. Org shuffle that occurred in Feb was purely political and many of the right people got let go or reshuffled. Very few senior women at the company, they have all left or been let go. This is a true boys club. I left before the stress gave me a stoke and I’m so happy I did. I didn’t realize how miserable this place really was until I left and now have my evenings back. New management wants everyone in the office from 9-5, regardless of the fact you have been on the phone the night before till 1am, and have calls that start at 6am. Ems is a grind, but this place is the worst. If you can work here, you can work anywhere. In a weird way I’m happy for the time I spent here because it’s made me appreciate my new job so much.