Polara Engineering Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"Many of the people who work at Polara are absolutely wonderful people. Sadly in Engineering there is little process, little in the way of requirements nor design. Estimating project timelines becomes difficult as the target is not well defined. While the owner strives for the best quality, and has strong process in production, engineering does not receive the same attention to detail and thus stuff falls through the cracks. The engineering cubicles are next to shipping, with manufacturing on the other side of that. Noise can be an issue."

"Should be a nice little company, except for an unfortunate weakness in upper-management. Replacing the manufacturing manager and quality manager on multiple occasions in the last few years, you might think upper management would get the clue that they are the problem. Unfortunately they have built a scapegoat atmosphere, and rather than correct issues they would rather find someone to blame. This wouldn't be so bad except a large portion of your annual salary is tied up in the annual bonuses. Not only might everyone's bonus disappear because of poor management practices, but they will arbitrarily cut individual bonuses for reasons unrelated to performances. They also have positioned bonus season to be during the slow time of year, and conveniently lay-off and replace people just before it's time to make the payment. If you don't mind a passive-aggressive style off management, with a little micro-management, you might do alright with this company. Otherwise, until upper-management learns to respect their employees, and realizes their personal lack of knowledge in running a modern manufacturing concern is THE significant problem, this is a company to avoid."

"Poor upper management and poor work environment. Very quick to fire personnel."