The training for this job is non existant. The way my manager "taught" me the software was to throw me at large important programming jobs and deny my attempts to ask for help. There was a few classes I took at first and teaching them later on did help, but by and large this company takes the chicks learning to fly by being shoved out of the nest approach. It doesn't tend to work out if you're a guy like me who's just a CAD oriented mechanical engineer with weak coding skills. Anytime I struggled on a job I knew that not only was I failing my boss but also the customer. My manager in particular was very prone to cursing and lecturing me. This made the learning environment hostile and frustrating. There was also a really gross trend I've seen in many other places, that being an expectation to stay over the usual leaving time to get more work done. This was constantly suggested by my manager, he always wanted me to "take programs home and study them while you're eating dinner." That kind of suggestion is stuff that should stay in the 1950s and is completely inappropriate. I will and I have stayed an extra hour many a time just to finish something or help out, but thats extra credit. That should not be normal. Not to mention everytime I'd ask for help, I'd get punished. I was eventually put on a PIP with the promise of more training and shadowing opportunities. These opportunities were never seen and I was let go. Extremely bad place to work, if you're asking me.
