Wyle Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Caste system"

What do you like about working at Wyle?

"Fun job, good coworkers"

What don't you like about working at Wyle?

"Management was terrible"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take better care of employees"

"Great place to work"

What do you like about working at Wyle?

"The entire company has thier act together and know what is going on"

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

"Sell your talents, skills and abiltiy to multI task"

What don't you like about working at Wyle?

"The drive to my location"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work"

"too bad they are no longer in business - I'd still be working there!"

What do you like about working at Wyle?

"Everything! Treated like a true professional, given the opportunity to travel,"

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

"no longer in business"

What don't you like about working at Wyle?

"There wasn't anything I didn't like"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Too late - they were sold to a competitor in 2000"

"Some parts of Wyle are good places to work."

What do you like about working at Wyle?

"I was hired at Wyle in El Segundo after being mostly unemployed for almost five years. I have a PhD in physics and was previously working in the defense industry."

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

"Stay away from the older parts of Wyle."

What don't you like about working at Wyle?

"I was never treated properly. I was never adequately compensated or promoted. My first job at Wyle was as a technical writer. I was working 50 to 70 hours a week for more than a year. I was responsible for instigating an evolutionary improvement in the entire report writing system that probably prevented at least two major customers from leaving Wyle. I was never rewarded or compensated.After my predecessor returned to Wyle, 1998, there was not enough work for two report writers. Nobody could be bothered finding me any more work, so for almost four years I was working about 25 to 30 hours a week. My attempts to bring in new business were either ignored or derided. I was then laid off and worked as an On-Call employee, less than part time, for almost two years.I came up with many new ideas and inventions that could have revolutionized vibration and shock testing at Wyle Labs, but nobody in management was interested in any of my ideas.In 2004 I was hired back full time to run the calibration lab which had been moved to El Segundo from the recently shut Norco facility. As a result of my skill and brains the new facility was brought on line rapidly. I was faced with trying to maintain calibrated equipment for two entire facilities, El Segundo and the new San Bernardino site, with a badly obsolete calibration system. My calibration equipment was old and most was failing. When the accelerometer calibrator failed I was able to cleverly fix the system and keep it running. When the entire system became unusable, I was able to secure relatively inexpensive and quick outside accelerometer calibration. Eventually I conceived of the idea of buying a new sate-of-the-art calibrator by a rent to own deal that I arranged with the manufacturer.Again, no raise and no promotion. When Wyle was sold, new management ignored my requests for new equipment and better facilities. When I took part in an extensive profitability review of the El Segundo facility, I made management aware of the problems caused by old test equipment and my need for new calibration equipment and facilities. I was subsequently laid off and replaced by a person with no calibration experience. I was not given any time to train my replacement. Subsequent to my lay-off about 30% of the test workforce was laid off including management, test engineers, and technicians who had worked for Wyle for over 30 years.As a result of my lay-off in-house calibration was almost completely destroyed and calibration costs at least doubled.In the almost 10 years I worked for Wyle my salary only increased by about 20%. An employee who did not even have a two year college degree made twice what I did since he ran the computer system for the phones, Internet, e-mail, and the LAN."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If you are not willing to fix the facility and equipment problems at the El Segundo facility, then stop doing testing there."

What do you like about working at Wyle?

"My coworkers"

What don't you like about working at Wyle?

"Senior Management"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Remember who supports you"

"A very challenging but important job assisting Corps of Engineers."

What do you like about working at Wyle?

"Very professional work environmant and a very challenging task to perform on schedule."

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

"This is one of the best companies that I have worked for and I worked 10 years at a company that places within the top 10 of places to work in Forbes magazines for over twenty years."

What don't you like about working at Wyle?

"I love coming to work because each day brings new challenges and surprises to overcome."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To continue their methodology to motivate the workers to strive to achieve excellence and success."

What do you like about working at Wyle?

"The engineering aspects applying many years of experience in the Defense Industry"

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

"Ensure that you understand the Statement of Work (SoW) since it can be very misleading."

What don't you like about working at Wyle?

"Micro Management. Cutting corners to save budget only to find out the hard way in the field and/or aboard ship at sea during deployment"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Integrity honesty and trust are the more important attributes of leadership/managment. Mistakes can be tolerated."

"Good experience"

What do you like about working at Wyle?

"Had good opportunities and worked with great teams. Had opportunity to support critical customers' mission."

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

"Find out what other growth opportunities across the company exist."

What don't you like about working at Wyle?

"Growth opportunities could be limited at times. Was not involved in corporate initiatives."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Involve the corporate initiatives and have more all hands sessions."

"Wyle does a good job of keeping their employees satisfied with benefits, flex schedules and competitive salaries."

"With 20+ years of consulting experience, this is the best company I've ever worked for."

"Great first job to get into the field. Co-workers were very intelligent and the company was up to date on the current technologies as a whole."

"I have been working on a government contract for 18+ years, I have gone from mainframe to client/server in that time. I would like to find a more reliable position in the IT field."

"I have been working at Wyle for 10 years. It is not uncommon to find people who have worked for my division for 10 or more years. Wyle is a good company with strong family values. Though there are politics at work in all companies, Wyle has routinely made hard decisions that keep the maximum number of people on the job as possible. They really look out for their people. They feel like a family in many respects.Wyle is also very involved in its local community with many projects all over."

"Overall Wyle Laboratories was not a bad place to work but now that they have been acquired by NTS the situation may be changing as they are not as big as Wyle and do not have the many facets and management that Wyle does. I hope that in the future NTS will turn out to be a good owner and a responsible employer for all of the remaining employees."