Working at Cardinal IP in Evanston, IL: 5 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Evanston, IL Area

"Flexibility. Patent Engineer/Analyst positions at Cardinal IP offer a massive amount of flexibility. You eventually choose your own hours and get paid based on your production output. Generally, this is fine. However, compensation does not necessarily increase with the quality of your work, only the quantity. The company culture is abysmal (nobody talks to each other at any level, no events, no team meetings, etc.) and the training program is non-existent (yet you will get blamed for a lack of knowledge that was never taught). Compensation is questionable at best and HR is generally unwilling to side with lower-level employees, even in cases of misconduct by upper management. Huge red flag. If all you care about is flexibility, this is the job for you. If you want upward mobility, professional development opportunities, or any amount of social culture, do NOT go with this company."

"Good working environment but not enough experienced people between DEV and QA"

"A great place to work. Highly recommend."

"Management took a poor path and the headache simply wasn't worth it anymore."

What do you like about working at Cardinal IP?

"Ability to work from home is far and away the best thing."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Morale has gone down significantly recently, it was once a good place to work for but they let that go by trying to find something more to manage or by following the recommendations of their most recent PhD/LLM/MBA/Process engineer type who thinks they can come up with more ways to complicate the process in order to justify their paycheck."

What don't you like about working at Cardinal IP?

"Management / process engineers seem hell-bent on coming up with an endless number of check-lists and additional requirements for patent office work while simultaneously reducing compensation."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Let your good searchers do their jobs without putting the fear of God into them because they didn't follow your latest list of requirements to a 'T' Many of your searchers have never had the PTO reject a case from them yet you continue to reduce their salary and complicate their workload."

"I have a very negative opinion of this company. I regret having worked at Cardinal. It was a waste of three years of my life. I was not fired by the way. I just do not find Cardinal IP an attractive place to work."