3.0
Jul 18, 2016
Former employee
Goleta, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
The products are high-tech instrumentation, which offers a variety of interesting and challenging problems to work on. The site I worked at (near Santa Barbara, CA) builds Atomic Force Microscopes, which consist of advanced electro-mechanical nano-positioning systems, low noise analog and mixed-signal electronics, and fairly complex software. So a lot of opportunity to learn.
Cons
Management has a really hard time focusing, which means a constant stream of conflicting priorities. Many of the systems are based on aging platforms (older DSPs / FPGAs, bloated and unmaintainable application codebase). In recent years many of the better engineers have left, but there are still good people there as well.