Pros
I joined the engineering team about a year ago.
The best reason for an engineer to work at Dynamics is to work on a truly flexible consumer electronic product that has the potential to be in every hand in the world. There is a lot of flexible printed circuit products and components out there, but they are flexible at the manufacturing level and are in a rigid environment for the final application. Dynamics' card must be able to work under every condition you can imagine using a credit card. That's a great challenge for an engineering team and one that will get solved somewhere, and probably here.
My next comment is about Jeff Mullen, CEO. There's a lot of negative stuff about him on Glassdoor, but I want to provide a perspective that leads me to say the next best reason to work here is it has a CEO who is committed to the success of the company. I've worked on 4 continents for large companies and small, with a range of cultures and leaders, some of whom paid lip service to success but were more interested in racing cars and living large. I've also worked in Pittsburgh for a really great guy whose start-up had great technology but the company couldn't hit that critical velocity and it's now defunct. Jeff Mullen, in seven years, from a standing start, has Dynamics cards in the field with a major international customer and over a 110M raised. Ask yourself, would you rather work for a guy who's on his own learning curve and making mistakes but committed to figuring out how to succeed as a global tech manufacturing company in Western PA against competitors in China, Korea, Germany, Brazil... or a nice person with nice tech? As a father with kids who will some day need to go to college, I know which one I'd choose.
The last reason I'll mention is the people. The engineering management team has the brains, the energy and the commitment to do this job. The whole team, engineering and beyond, is filled with smart, capable, decent hardworking people who make it about the work. That's enough really.
Cons
In my opinion, all other comments notwithstanding, the downsides all arise from the fact that we're doing something that is difficult and we (from the CEO down) haven't figured it out yet. But I've seen huge strides in the last year and as more and more issues get identified and knocked down, this place will get better and better. I can't say I recognize the descriptions of the company that have been put up here, though I here the stories around the office. But I've worked in far harsher environments than here.
So I'd say the seasons have changed at Dynamics and I'm starting to feel the wind at my back.
