Senior HW Design Engineer - Hardware Designer Curtiss-Wright Employee Review

2.0
Oct 12, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You get to work with some nice people. But that is about it. There is a good work/life balance. I am not sure what others think, but I really think that you can find a decent balance between your work and life.

Cons

They are working with really old technology. There was not much challenge at work. There is too much of micro managing happening. The hours are little strict. I was warned few times about being late for half an hour. It is a very unorganized work environment. The peoples are technically in a decent level. But, you will not be surrounded with super smart people, as I used to see in the other places that I had worked. One thing I noticed is that the company cares so much more about its contractors than its direct employees. And another negative side of working there is the System Engineering team. At least on the projects that I worked, system engineers were really not doing much, and they were just waiting to see what HW/SW engineers have on their plates to offer.

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Cons

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