Pros
They provide free fruit and have water filters. You get paid on time. Benefits are descent, If you contribute 6% towards your 401K, CDI will contribute 2%. Yeah, you get more from OEM's, but are better than some other contract companies Engineers I have worked with were friendly and helpful, not a rotten apple in the bunch
Cons
There haven’t been raises across the board in 2 years. Computers we have are ancient and break down a lot No respect from upper management. They will say good job and then stab you in the back. Bottom line is money, not employee satisfaction. Was put on furlough for 3 months. Weekly asked boss if new work was coming in. Nothing, and the director of sales was doing nothing to get work in. Just sat in his office with the lights off and blinds drawn. Reminded me of the judge in the movie The Natural. 98% of work comes from GE Aviation or other GE conglomerate, bad since GE is bringing more work in and sending to their offshore sites. Attrition rate here at Cincinnati branch is just over 80%. This time last year we had close to 350 people, now we have ~60 people. Upper management have no clue how to run this business, thus the high attrition rate Director of engineering is leaving after 5 months, nothing positive to show, but he will soup up his LinkedIn page saying he did though. We have lost several key personnel: Quality manager, Director of Sales, Director of Business Management in the past month. Everything was going descent, GE is the problem really, but you don't fire the director of operations over it. You have to convince GE to stop sending work to their companies overseas. After many years VP finally sees the light and sees that we cannot live off GE alone. Wants to find other customers. It will be difficult to get the foot into the door since other competitors are already there. They(upper management) lied to us when they said our benefits are based on local location, no they are based on headquarters location in Philadelphia.
