Was a great company to work for, way back when...
Pros
Good salary. Severance was generous. Harman discount. Cheap lunches. Most the people I worked with were great. Good culture, mostly good people/staff.
Cons
The decline of the company started before the Harman acquisition, but has since accelerated. Current management not knowledgeable in industry. Product owners do not know what they are doing. Marketing/Sales oriented company; products often announced before they are even remotely close to being completed (not unheard of to ship a boat anchor, and during that time have firmware work like mad for a fix so that the client can install the updated firmware and *then* have a usable product). Poor product marketing decisions has resulted in declining sales. Off-shoring of products to India and China (expect higher fail rates). Failing to innovation and constantly trying to play catch-up with competing products. A significant percentage of management appears to have risen to their "level of incompetence." Failure of management to see the value of software and how to leverage that for company growth. Raises were very small. No real career ladder, once Harman established one, management was slow to implement, with some departments never fighting for their people. During this transition, upper management arbitrarily assigned titles/grades to engineers [this did not affect most, but know of a case of a recent college grad going from Engineer to Senior Engineer, yet may key innovators staying at Senior Engineer instead of being promoted to Principal or Senior Principal Engineer.] Top heavy with upper management.
