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"Designing new equipment the prototyping it before deploying new gear to the field is always rewarding, particularly when you can help the operations groups improve efficiency and make their jobs easier. Research into new technologies is always rewarding and being on the cutting edge of new technologies is an exciting position."
Posted 11 years ago in Houston, TX
Senior Engineer at Film Tech
in Allentown, PA

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"I was responsible for all equipment to be installed"

What do you like about working at Film Tech?

"I had free rain on installations and proceedures and the employees were willing to learn"

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

"they need to ask about projects and how will they be evauluated"

What don't you like about working at Film Tech?

"the management was hampered by a lack of project moneys"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"management needs to open the bocketbook for project moneys as needed"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Engineer at Samsung
in San Jose, CA

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"Samsung is the leading company in the market."

What do you like about working at Samsung?

"It is a global company, and people in that place are very good."

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

"There is nothing special, but be aware you should show your confidence in the interview."

What don't you like about working at Samsung?

"The project schedule changed frequently, and the schedule is too tight."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They have to plan the project properly, so that people work with good quality."

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 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Engineer at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
in Riverton, UT

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"Working for the Church is great."

What do you like about working at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?

"I work in a challenging fast paced environment with the best people that I've ever worked with. The purpose of the work is the most important work there is."

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

"Be prepared. The folks you'll talk to are in the top 5% of their fields."

What don't you like about working at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?

"The distance from home requires me to keep an apartment in SLC."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I have no suggestions. The management is also the best quality that can be found."

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
Senior Engineer at Qimonda
in Williston, VT

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"This was a great place to work and the work was challenging"

What do you like about working at Qimonda?

"The work was proportionally challenging to my skills and experience. I had worked before with many of the engineers and we had a great respect and friendship towards each other."

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

"Unles you wish to work in Germany or Chine don't waste your time."

What don't you like about working at Qimonda?

"They closed the development lab here in Vermont because of mismanagement and eventually went bankrupt."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management of a company that is so dependent upon the prices on the world market needs to be audited and decisions need to be more conservative."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 1 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Senior Engineer at Honda Motor
in Raymond, OH

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"Quality is the most important output of an engineer."

What do you like about working at Honda Motor?

"I love that my company will do anything necessary to output a top quality product. It makes me proud every time I see one of my vehicles on the road."

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

"It is important to have a passion for being an engineer. We create products that we are proud to own."

What don't you like about working at Honda Motor?

"I love my job, but at my level, there are limited advancement opportunities."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The biggest struggle at my company is the cultural differences. I think my management recognizes this and must constantly adapt as our diversity increases."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Engineer at Dimension Data
in Framingham, MA

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"they are new to the UC world with little video experience"

What do you like about working at Dimension Data?

"it was a job I thought that would grow into something more meaningful"

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

"be sure to ask what their long term plan is if you are into a video career"

What don't you like about working at Dimension Data?

"the company is very shortsighted when it comes to planning for video and UC technology"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"get sales to be better at selling video solutions and wrapping it in the UC plan"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 2 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Senior Engineer at CaraMetriX
in Idaho Falls, ID

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Good and bad"

What do you like about working at CaraMetriX?

"I contributed to the vision. I was given equity in the company. I worked from home."

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

"Chances are that no one will interview with this company, but if they do, it will be a different experience than I had. The company will be back from the grave, and I'll likely be the one hiring the technical staff."

What don't you like about working at CaraMetriX?

"The amazingly long hours. The lack of people and hardware resources."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"We need to set more reasonable goals and time lines for the resources we have."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Engineer at TEKsystems
in Wilmington, NC

What do you like about working at TEKsystems?

"Working within a small organization makes it very easy to build good relationships with my coworkers. I had a lot of freedom to pick and choose the specialized projects that I wanted to do."

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

"Keep an open line of communication with the co-workers and make sure you well-document your work."

What don't you like about working at TEKsystems?

"Not always having the tools needed. Not having a true engineering mentor. I'm not happy with the lack of benefits and financial compensation."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Needs to bring in more talented workers and find a way to keep them motivated and on board."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Engineer at DRS Technologies
in Fort Walton Beach, FL
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 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Engineer at Siemens
in San Diego, CA

What do you like about working at Siemens?

"Multiple skill set required for the job is large. This helped to minimise boredom."

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

"skillset - java, C/C++, windows, linux, solaris, hp, geographically distributed work force"

What don't you like about working at Siemens?

"Huge software suite. Huge amount of time (70%) is required to integrate new code in the base."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Mature the core base code and release stable builds or binaries to the core application teams."

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 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Engineer at Siemens
in Orlando, FL

What do you like about working at Siemens?

"International diversified culture with a leading position in power industry products."

What don't you like about working at Siemens?

"That the work location is too far from my family, that I cannot be home every day."

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 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Engineer at Applied Research Associates
in Randolph, VT

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"Overall it is good, but company has not given a clear direction over past year."

What do you like about working at Applied Research Associates?

"Flexible hours and some freedom to explore new approaches regarding unmanned vehicle development."

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

"Be prepared to do jobs totally unrelated to your profession. Even though I am a proponent of learning new skills outside of your current skillset, my current employer had me perform ME and EE work the first few months when I do not have any expereince in these fields. My field is computer science."

What don't you like about working at Applied Research Associates?

"The constant changing of upper management (three division manager since I started May 2010) each having their own vision of what research we should be conducting. Unfortunately each manager's vision contradicts the previous manager's vision. Bottom line, there has not been a clear goal for our group over the past year."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Define a clear goal for your employees and show some condidence in their abilities. Upper management has shown some weakness over the past year."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Engineer at Hiiir
in New York City, NY

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"I used my knowledge to complete different project. ex: LAMP, Zend, jQuery."

What do you like about working at Hiiir?

"I like working in a funny term. It makes me more interested in the work."

What don't you like about working at Hiiir?

"Not growing and studying opportunity. Just use labor to exchange money. And opinionated boss."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try to understand staff's thinking. They will give you more thing."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Engineer at Tellabs
in Santa Clara, CA

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"Hands on experience on Dataplane programming."

What do you like about working at Tellabs?

"Offering good technological and career advancement, flexible work hours and good compensation"

What don't you like about working at Tellabs?

"Politics among team members or teams. Encourage talent and provide resources."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Please spot the good talent and provide encouragement to that talent"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Engineer at United Space Alliance
in Cape Canaveral, FL

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Superb experience!"

What do you like about working at United Space Alliance?

"Everything."

What don't you like about working at United Space Alliance?

"Location."

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