3 Searcher Reviews

Searcher at Cardinal IP

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"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."

Searcher at First American Title

Searcher at ASRC Management Services

What do you like about working at ASRC Management Services?

"The salary is ok and most of the benefits are, too. If I make much more, I'll price myself out of the market"

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

"Have family and friends in town or living close by, or you'll never see them."

What don't you like about working at ASRC Management Services?

"Not enough leave! We start out with a decent amount, but whenever there's a snowstorm or something that closes us, we have to use leave."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Offer people more leave in lieu of raises - they'd almost all take it."