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Principal Engineer at Concurrent Technologies
in Bremerton, WA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Great projects, great people, poor workload management."

What do you like about working at Concurrent Technologies?

"The talented and wholesome people, and the variety of challenging projects."

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

"Extensive networking within the company can help you continue employment (get tasks from other projects) after the initial project for which you were hired is over. Also, try to be working on at least three staggered projects at the same time."

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

"Employment is conditional to an individual's direct charging to a project. If you do not have enough projects everyday you are permanently let go regardless of performance or longevity."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Establish a baseline number of employees and use short-term subcontracts to fill short-term excess need."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Principal Engineer at Microsoft
in Mountain View, CA

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"MSFT is a great company with good benefits and good people."

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

"This is a great company for most people to work for."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"At my current level, there is limited career growth available."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Principal Engineer at Carolina Environmental Inc.
in Chapin, SC

What do you like about working at Carolina Environmental Inc.?

"Sole environmental engineer is a rewarding and exciting career for folks with the discipline and skills."

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

"None needed, I am not looking to hire anyone at this time."

What don't you like about working at Carolina Environmental Inc.?

"Always had to be finding new work sources and clients."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I am the management, earlier in career get set up as sole source or hire folks expert at marketing."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Principal Engineer at Ciena
in Alpharetta, GA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Agressive, fast-paced, and challenging"

What do you like about working at Ciena?

"I like the vision and strategy of the company as well as the people."

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

"Be enthusiastic and ready to learn and show some technical proficiency."

What don't you like about working at Ciena?

"Limited opportunity for advancement as well as slow decision making."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Have reviews of middle management by their groups so that it's fair."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Principal Engineer at Points.com

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Okay."

What do you like about working at Points.com?

"Beer cart every Friday afternoon, and nice people all everywhere!"

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

"Be pleasant and competent and you'll get hired, the bar is not high."

What don't you like about working at Points.com?

"More than 30% of the 120 employees are management who produce nothing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Less management, more doing. Less hand waving metrics, more hard data."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Principal Engineer at NetScout Systems
in Westford, MA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Great people, great technology. Small company so advancement is limited."

What do you like about working at NetScout Systems?

"Great people and technology. My work is self directly mostly."

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

"Be honest. If you don't fit you may be let go quickly."

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

"Compensation is poor, management is stingy with raises and bonuses."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Consult with business people to grow the company. Sitting on a pile of cash what are you going to do with it"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Principal Engineer at EMC
in Hopkinton, MA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"experience good for any storage positons"

What do you like about working at EMC?

"working at the company allow use knowleage and experience on practice"

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

"As any interview have to be make sure to good fit fot position"

What don't you like about working at EMC?

"not good communication between different group of people and not share information"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"good communication between different group of people and share information"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Principal Engineer at Ethicon
in Cincinnati, OH

What do you like about working at Ethicon?

"challenge of the job. Learning potential. Opportunity for growth and development"

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

"ask them about company growth. Make sure you understand its vision for the future."

What don't you like about working at Ethicon?

"New environment -change to cash cow. Company appears to be compromising its future"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"think long term. Invest in long term growth and pipeline"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Principal Engineer at Powerwave Technologies
in Santa Ana, CA

What do you like about working at Powerwave Technologies?

"The work I am doing here goes into the product within short time"

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

"Minimum RF and HW knowledge is must for a successful candidate"

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

"Lack of proper product Road-map and future planning for next technology leap."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better technology direction or road map building and execution planning"

Person You Work For 4 / 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
Principal Engineer at Priva Technologies
in Cupertino, CA

What do you like about working at Priva Technologies?

"in a small startup, you can have a more challenges to utilize your HW/SW knowledge for solving interesting problems."

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

"Please talk with me first, I'll let you know its real story."

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

"The BD is far from the RD, thus missing a lot of market opportunities."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Trust the RD, especially when your RD has more senior engineers."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Principal Engineer at AT&T
in Hoffman Estates, IL
Person You Work For 4.2 / 5 People You Work With 4.8 / 5 Work Setting 4.4 / 5
Support You Get 4.1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.9 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.9 / 5
Company Culture 4.5 / 5 Way You Work 4.6 / 5
Principal Engineer at Brown and Caldwell
in Los Angeles, CA
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4.9 / 5 Work Setting 4.9 / 5
Support You Get 4.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.8 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.9 / 5
Company Culture 4.9 / 5 Way You Work 4.8 / 5
Principal Engineer at Dassault Systèmes
Person You Work For 4.7 / 5 People You Work With 4.5 / 5 Work Setting 4.5 / 5
Support You Get 4.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.2 / 5
Company Culture 4.3 / 5 Way You Work 4.5 / 5
Principal Engineer at Airvana
Person You Work For 4.5 / 5 People You Work With 4.6 / 5 Work Setting 3.2 / 5
Support You Get 4.2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.9 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2.2 / 5
Company Culture 3.4 / 5 Way You Work 4.5 / 5
Principal Engineer at ExaGrid
in Westborough, MA
Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4.5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3.5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2.5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2.5 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
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