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AMAX Engineering

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Not a great company - Project Specialist AMAX Engineering Employee Review

2.0
Jan 22, 2015
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Pros

Workload on the engineering/operations side is pretty minimal and repetitive (allowing for lots of downtime). Management was pretty relaxed as long as you showed you were contributing and getting work done at the weekly update meetings. Really easy to get a job since the turnover rate is so high.

Cons

Very little money is cycled back into the company (no R&D department), and most of that money goes into the sales/marketing department leaving the infrastructure of the company pretty weak. The Engineering department consists of several "engineers" from non-accredited universities (e.g. Phoenix, Devry, etc.) whose jobs are just glorified production workers that can troubleshoot a bit. There's no team atmosphere at all - people are more worried about covering for themselves than pushing for the company to succeed. Company morale/outlook is observably low leading to an unnaturally high turnover rate. AMAX makes use of their employees being immigrants or fresh graduates to keep compensation at a minimum, and rather than emphasizing employee retention they resort to hiring replacements to keep salaries low. Once employees gain enough experience they jump to competing companies (e.g. Synnex) as soon as the opportunity arises. Ultimately time spent working for AMAX is only useful as something to put on your resume for future job prospects rather than a period of growth.

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1.0
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Pros

A few positive folks but overall a mess. Thankfully some people you talk to are nice and honest about how they feel here.

Cons

Easily one of the worst companies to ever work for, even according to both current and former employees. Trust the reviews, this job isn't worth it despite the job market being unfavorable. Family run-business that doesn't know how to actually run a company. First month, you realize everyone is miserable here. Benefits are one of the worst you will ever see.

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