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"I love engineering management as a career and life's work. The intricate processes and personnel interactions along with goal setting, work planning, and tracking work activities keeps the juices flowing."
Posted 10 years ago in Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA
Engineering Manager at Synchronoss
in San Jose, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"not bad"

What do you like about working at Synchronoss?

"Medium size company, dynamic and growing fast. Opportunity for growth is there if you are at right place."

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

"There is nothing particular, its typical interview process of 3-4 rounds."

What don't you like about working at Synchronoss?

"If you are not working in headquarter you may get ignored."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take care of people even if they are not working from head quarter."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Engineering Manager at ProductSaver
in Oswego, IL

What do you like about working at ProductSaver?

"I love to bring raw ideas into a functioningmachine."

What don't you like about working at ProductSaver?

"No long term vision. No retirement benefits.Difficulties dealing with my dissabilities."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Engineering Manager at Weatherford International
in Houston, TX

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"No opportunities for growth"

What do you like about working at Weatherford International?

"I like working in the oil industry and the people."

What don't you like about working at Weatherford International?

"I do not like the fact that there is no opportunity for growth at Weatherford."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would suggest that Weatherford create better processes and better career opportunities."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Engineering Manager at General Electric
in Aurora, OH

What do you like about working at General Electric?

"Location and the people. Very friendly and intelligent people with only a few that are difficult."

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

"Be honest and yourself. Relax and present yourself confidently as we want to see who you really are and whether we want to work with you."

What don't you like about working at General Electric?

"Too dysfunctional with not enough local authority. Need to have less interface with corporate and foster growth within."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Consider organizing locally and not through Milwaukie to allow people to be empowered."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Engineering Manager at Cumberland Packing
in Brooklyn, NY

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"Excellent people to work for."

What do you like about working at Cumberland Packing?

"Great people producing a great product. Company continues to grow."

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

"This is a great company operating as a very well run family business."

What don't you like about working at Cumberland Packing?

"Limited opportunities in moving up the ladder since it's family owned."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep doing what you are doing. Great new products and market keeps expanding."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Engineering Manager at Caldwell Manufacturing
in Rochester, NY

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"I had the opportunity to work with and supervise some great people."

What do you like about working at Caldwell Manufacturing?

"Desiging and developing of products, Supporting customers fy providing input to their new product designs."

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

"If you really need a job consider working there an interim position."

What don't you like about working at Caldwell Manufacturing?

"The management culture was one of blame with little direction. Salaries were rolled back, benefits stopped and accounts payable were deferred while executives received million dollar bonuses."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Put your trust in your staff. Identify clear goals and support the efforts to achieve them."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 2 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Engineering Manager at Walden Structures
in Mentone, CA

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"Good company to work for except for employee turnover rate"

What do you like about working at Walden Structures?

"The co-workers are great and your voice will be heard."

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

"Always ask about the length of being with the company. I have seen many people go for beyond what they were brought aboard for and be let go when times slow down."

What don't you like about working at Walden Structures?

"Seeing a high employee turnover rate and the owner should be around more often to see whom is doing what without the information being filtered by others."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To work more as a team and not departments against each other."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Engineering Manager at SMR Automotive
in Marysville, MI

What do you like about working at SMR Automotive?

"The empowerment and the efficient way of running the business."

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

"it is a very good company to work for it."

What don't you like about working at SMR Automotive?

"the company became very stable is limiting growth opportunities for me."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"more resources needed and Definitely equal distribution of work and responsibilities in different departments."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Engineering Manager at Altergy Systems
in Folsom, CA

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"Exciting technology, great talent, stifling micro-management."

What do you like about working at Altergy Systems?

"Great talent, good communication within a team, excellent breadth of project experiences,"

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

"Look around, ask alot of questions, be thorough in your search."

What don't you like about working at Altergy Systems?

"Poor communication from the top-down, with lack of certain positions in the company overburdens each team. Unfortunate circumstances indicate that things will not change."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Staff up key missing positions, recognize your talent as talent and reward them accordingly and in a timely manner."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Engineering Manager at General Electric
in San Jose, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"A great place for an ME"

What do you like about working at General Electric?

"Team work, availability of many experts, good working environment, good management philosophy"

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

"Prepare in advance the reasons why you want to work for the position you are applying."

What don't you like about working at General Electric?

"It had too formalized organization, and was very stingy in giving any type of title."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should hear from people at the bottom, and should discriminate. They were sometimes to clicky."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Engineering Manager at EchoStar
in Englewood, CO

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"The work was challenging, the experience was Ok."

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"The job I was in was good and challenging. The team I was leading had capable engineers that made the work more interesting."

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

"Be yourself, bring your tech, communication skills and new ideas."

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"Company Culture, Leadership is weak in Strategically leading the company is a specific direction."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Communicate your vision for the company and where its headed and how will they take the company to the next level."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Engineering Manager at Johnson Space Center
in Houston, TX

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"I have 8+ years developing solutions for SharePoint. In this position at the Johnson Space Center, I supervised 14+ Engineers."

What do you like about working at Johnson Space Center?

"I learned a lot about SharePoint and how it can be used."

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

"Do your homework and be prepared before coming to the interview."

What don't you like about working at Johnson Space Center?

"Decisons are driven from high level, by politics and the election."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Tapping on employees' creativity, can provide a wealth of ideas that management may have overlooked."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Engineering Manager at Amot Controls
in Houston, TX

What do you like about working at Amot Controls?

"I had the freedom to design new products based on Sales feedback"

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

"Be prepared to work hard and travel across the globe in search of business"

What don't you like about working at Amot Controls?

"Difficulting in getting budgets approved for certain programs and projects"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be less restrictive of budgets provided substantial effort if provided to projected payback schedules"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems
in Menlo Park, CA

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Collaboration, creativity and the freedom to develop product that customers want."

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

"The company was sold because it lacked the focus to adopt to new realties."

What don't you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Losing money and changing direction without a clear strategy to succeed."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Figure out a strategy and focus on execution that supports the needs of the customer. IP development and all vertical integration requires lots of capital that can't be matched by using other capabilities from the horizontal market such as using Intel's CPUs Vs SPARC."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Engineering Manager at CARDONE Industries
in Philadelphia, PA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Electronics Engineering Manager"

What do you like about working at CARDONE Industries?

"Developing new product line from Reverse Engineering a product to training team to produce that product"

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

"Get it in writting. never believe verbal promises Trust ony God all ohers need to be audited"

What don't you like about working at CARDONE Industries?

"Continuous relearning new technology and training others in its operation"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do not forget you will never succeed with out experienced leaders"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
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