Good company, questionable management
Pros
interesting work (at times). can get dull pretty quick though pretty good benefits. lot of time off, seperate bucket for sick time and pto from vacation great team support great starting pay (make sure you bargain hard) coworkers are pretty smart. honestly best part of the job are the coworkers. diversity & inclusion groups plenty of opportunities to travel for work - they pay for everything
Cons
poor pay raises. raises barely fight inflation terrible at giving promotions. had a coworker that had gone nearly 10 years for a promotion deserved at 5 years. managers flaunt how they got promoted every 2-3 years, but refuse to promote team members until 7-10 years in their current role. terrible career growth. you can't really branch out to different areas (directors want to keep you in their department and not let you leave). training budget gets smaller every year so they tell you to not take training to reduce overhead budget. terrible file management / tracking. pretty often you'll have to look back at work someone else did 2-5 years ago, and won't find anything, so you'll have to re-do all their work or take shortcuts. middletown ct has a big knowledge transfer issue. every team is separate (despite sitting next to each other) and very little communication among each other. many young engineers don't even know their own chief/technical experts in their department in middletown. east hartford is much better in this regard. work can get dull quickly. pressure from management to get something out the door even if its not right. team sometimes bullied/pressured into working unpaid overtime for months/years and sometimes weekends. executives rewarding themselves with multi million dollar bonuses but lays off thousands of employees. many employees raised ethical concerns, but management ignored them all. rumor majority of layoffs targeted people of color. company denies it but holds true to everyone i know that got laid off. cafeteria food is awful and overpriced. you'll sometimes get moved to a different office with no say. sometimes this cuts your commute by 30 mins, sometimes it adds 30 mins. cuts to benefits (especially the scholar program) with zero notice or grandfathering current employees into old program. MANY young engineers thought the company tricked them during their initial hiring because of this bait and switch. not me personally but many were left a very sour taste because of this and started looking for a new job.
