78 Director of Product Development Reviews

Director of Product Development at Lumenico LTD

Director of Product Development at MVP Workshop

Director of Product Development at Bone Solutions Inc.

Director of Product Development at AT&T

"Creative ability with application development, autonomy, diverse group of team members to bounce ideas off of, ownership to see a project through from beginning to end, including lifecycle maintenance, my boss is open to new ideas and offers varying viewpoints to issues."

Director of Product Development at Carson Home Accents

"I have loved my job at Carson. The work has been challenging and rewarding. I have enjoyed the creative process, the ability to work directly with the overseas suppliers in China and India, and the freedom to build the brand I have been given."

Director of Product Development at CySolutions

"I enjoy the interaction and collaboration between stakeholders and developers when designing software solutions that solve real world problems."

Director of Product Development at Clegg Industries

"Working with sales to meet customer's demand."

Director of Product Development at TopPatch

"What I love...The fact that I was able to hire at my entire team with the full support from CEO of the company.Having a team, that cared for the product that they were building.Being able to manage contracts and salaries and expectations from the CEO and my employees."

Director of Product Development at Sound-Eklin

What do you like about working at Sound-Eklin?

"Good group of dedicated individuals that worked on advanced technologies for a relatively small market."

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

"Show that you can work unsupervised and react favorably to changing priorities."

What don't you like about working at Sound-Eklin?

"Upper management did not seem to have a firm grasp on the day to day operations and decisions handed down sometimes supported that idea."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Seemed to be a large communication gap between the executive team and the rest of the company. That coupled with no published company road map of goal fostered a general feeling that no on e knew what the future held."

Director of Product Development at Sound-Eklin

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Participated in growing a successful Co."

What do you like about working at Sound-Eklin?

"Dedicated group of people work with interesting products with direct contact to the customer base."

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

"Show that you can work unsupervised and can react to constant changes in focus."

What don't you like about working at Sound-Eklin?

"High level vision was not well defined or communicated so priorities seemed nebulous."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Put together a comprehensive plan that spells out the direction of company past we are going to be a leader in customer service."

Director of Product Development at SkyHawke Technologies

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"It was a great place to work. The good made the bad tolerable."

What do you like about working at SkyHawke Technologies?

"I loved the people I worked with and worked for."

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

"It's a great place to work. But, the people are even better than than the work."

What don't you like about working at SkyHawke Technologies?

"Not much I did not love about them, wished I could made more decisions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work - Make the best product"

Director of Product Development at Penton Media

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"It was a great start-up experience, with a really good team."

What do you like about working at Penton Media?

"We built a wonderfully collaborative team and worked very well together, despite being spread out across the country & frequent changes in leadership."

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

"It's a company going through major changes right now, so new hires would need to be aware and okay with some level of uncertainty."

What don't you like about working at Penton Media?

"Penton Media has been in layoff mode for several years, so the energy of the company and the morale of long term employees was pretty defeated."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Identify two or three key strategic initiatives and focus on them. Engage & communicate with employees so that they feel part of the team."

Director of Product Development at Markem-Imaje

What do you like about working at Markem-Imaje?

"An interesting set of technical problems to solve and the authority to solve them in my way"

What don't you like about working at Markem-Imaje?

"Increasing politics and command and control after the merger. A lack of focus on new products"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Value the engineering function more, it is the future of the company selling more product is necessary but essentially short term"

Director of Product Development at Spirent Communications

What do you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"The work is interesting, challenging and cutting edge of telecommunications testing."

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

"Anyone interviewing for the SAB division should be confindent in his or hers competency."

What don't you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"I worked in a division with diminishing revenue which meant lack of resources for our projects."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management is generally competent, if hard-nosed. They need to be more critical of the choices for new products."

Director of Product Development at Proxim Wireless

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Excellent company until it went public"

What do you like about working at Proxim Wireless?

"Great teamwork and communications - great products that led the industry"

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

"No - not at this time as company has changed significantly"

What don't you like about working at Proxim Wireless?

"When run by CEO that wanted to change what was working - drove company to bankruptcy"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen and work with mid management-show up at meetings too"