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Farnsworth Group Inc

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Worst first year experience - Associate Engineer Farnsworth Group Inc Employee Review

2.0
Dec 11, 2024
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Pros

These are all my personal opinions as I only worked in one department at the company. Great group of entry levels to get along with, along with “some” managers. Great learning opportunity at first. Until they kept changing the formats what seemed like every day. A couple of managers were understandable and easy to work with, great at explaining and describing what the overall scope entailed. I would say 2 of the 3 (the third will be in the cons section) in that office were nice and easy to go over how to do daily tasks. They always gave great feedback and didn’t belittle you for not understanding. The one manager seemed more professional with the way he spoke and would clarify things. The other one she was the brains behind the software great resource. The 3rd one seemed like an old vet with his “back in my day” attitude. Pay was ok for entry but no overtime unless you traveled overnight and did field work. Basic health and 401k options

Cons

This is place took a turn. There was always too much banter going on between management where it would get awkward and uncomfortable. That 3rd manager even though it seemed like he knew the industry well, he always came in his high horse and made it well known if you didn’t know, you were an idiot. Always belittled everyone especially when they weren’t around. Any opinion you had outside of work was always the wrong opinion to him never a dull moment. We would make stuff up between my peers because we knew he always had a “right opinion” Upper management was hardly around. No one really knew what his role was at first. Turns out he ran the circus show. And when he was in the office he would only come out to banter and openly discuss with that 3rd manager how terrible everyone was doing. These 2 would only give out negative feedback and not help in the training process. Lack of training and when one process was finally understood it would get scrapped and changed. In my time (less than a year) there were 6-8 people fired just because they weren't up to their standard. That included managers, entry level engineers and techs. Instead of figuring out the issue and training properly, it seemed like it was easier to start from scratch and repeat the process. The last manager they hired was probably what lead to my exit. Didnt understand the process and expectations were too high with unrealistic budgeting which lead to more work exhaustion. I would not recommend this place if working for this team. Be prepared to question why you are in this industry if this is your entry level out of college. I know a few that are there with 1-2 years who were already looking to exit

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5.0
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Pros

Great work environment and exposure to different areas of experience.

Cons

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2.0
Jan 20, 2026
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Pros

- Colleagues - Lots of work, so lots of experience - Admin staff - Basic benefits like anywhere else - Monthly phone stipend - Company vehicle for traveling to job sites

Cons

- Remote work became less and less tolerated (even if work was being completed) - Pay was stagnant and only received inflation-related raises. To put some context, our hourly fees increased about 10-15% each year for inflation and miscellaneous factors, and our pay only increased 9% total in three years. - Always encouraged to work extra hours to meet deadlines, however, no overtime pay. - Year end bonuses were abysmal for the first two years even after record breaking revenues those years. At a point, there was no incentive to work harder if the year end bonus was only going to be f i v e h u n d r e d dollars compared to the thousands upper management was receiving on top of profit sharing. - Profit sharing: only a select few within company are invited - Management: Some managers took the job way too seriously, micromanaging and feeling them breathe on your neck. It clearly showed how little they knew about managing individuals and only cared about profits and how many hours were used on a project. - Saw more HR hires rather than engineer hires to help balance work loads - Constant pressure on our time sheets and making us move time away from general and into projects…

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