DSM Group (Vormetric) - decent, but under-resourced - Anonymous employee Thales Employee Review

3.0
Oct 15, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

People are generally pretty nice. Decent benefits. Nice current office in North San Jose.

Cons

Wide variation in the level of technical ability of the engineers. Some are quite good. Others, not so much Not enough young people Lots of standard engineering practices (e.g., unit tests) have not been implemented, or very inconsistently. Not enough engineering resource! Engineers are pulled from one project onto others for months, leading to a lot of stalled development. Too many cases where one person is the only one that knows something. If they're not available, development stalls. Not enough QA resource to test everything that needs to be tested, leading to stalled development Too many simultaneous releases Project management interaction with engineering is completely broken.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

*This only applies to the Montgomeryville location* None. Used to be a great place to work. I enjoyed the work I did and the various teams I worked with.

Cons

*This only applies to the Montgomeryville location* -Health benefits have gotten worse each year. -Constant layoffs. -Changed from an 8 hour 3 shift day, 5 days a week to a 10 hour 2 shift day, 4 days out of the week. The idea was to save money on overtime, then they started asking the employees to stay the 4 hours between shifts. Then they started asking the employees to work the extra 3 days. Then they made the employees sign a waiver, making the 3 days mandatory when needed. -Flat raises, everyone gets the same raise. -Lower management no longer cares -Upper management is too focused on vanity projects or no longer cares

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