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Pro-Active Engineering

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Should be called Pro-Active Manufacturing - Software Engineer Pro-Active Engineering Employee Review

3.0
May 26, 2020
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Pros

A lot of software engineering work keeps you busy while giving you a diverse set of experiences in terms of hardware and software stacks in various projects.

Cons

Pro-Active's focus is 90 on manufacturing of PCBs and boards, 10 engineering. You are a contractor; there is little time for recreational learning or research and development. You are being paid on your clients dime essentially; the way software contracts are structured clearly display a lack of understanding of software engineering/coding workflows -- you better not have any bugs or your project will cost the company money. There is always a looming time pressure. Software engineering also seems like a very low priority to upper management despite it being the backbone of every project -- getting software tools you need like IDE's or better computers is like pulling teeth. There is little to no opportunity for employee growth or career advancements. Just as well, the pay is not very competitive. Part of this is because upper management is trying to rapidly expand the company too fast, trying to invest money in infrastructure rather than the employees.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

Production workers are great people, most of the middle management is good but constantly handcuffed by the Operations Director.

Cons

Director of Ops is very conniving. He will constantly backstab, discredit and talk down about his peers, subordinates and production workers to make himself look better. On several occasions I saw him talk down and discredit employees that left the company as being at fault for his failure or poor performance. He has created a very toxic work environment where many production workers are looking for other employment. People literally walk on eggshells around him. He micromanages his managers and staff and does not allow them to do their jobs without running every decision past him and he refuses to listen to any input. He has literally told people that if it was solely his decision he would fire that employee, an employee who is very good and knowledgeable. Again a very toxic and sometimes hostile and tense culture.

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