4.0
Feb 2, 2016
Former employee, more than 3 years
Algonquin, IL
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Excellent work environment and great staff.
Cons
The company is an older one so there is not as much room for new ideas.
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5.0
Nov 24, 2024
Current employee, more than 5 years
Carpentersville, IL
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Benefits are good. They have profit sharing, 401K matching and good Vacation.
Cons
Middle management thinks they have a lot of power.
2.0
Mar 11, 2026
Current employee, more than 1 year
Carpentersville, IL
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
- Good work-life balance - Everyone comes in to work every day - People are nice. Generally they don't care if you're kinda slacking off unless there's an emergency - You get to make military products that aren't actually weapons - Good diversity in the engineering departments
Cons
- No option to work from home, even if your job can be done fully remotely (except if your boss is cool) - All projects I've been on have had a bad case of scope creep - At least in the firmware team, R&D is done during production. Toy projects are uncommon. - Engineers don't seem to take much pride in their work (anymore) - Production processes are much better set up for hardware designs than for any kind of software. - Quality and End of Line testing are both overworked and aren't set up to test firmware.