Pros
- Get to work on cool things outside of what you would typically work on. - There are a handful of very smart people which you can learn from.
Cons
- Literally everyone is a manager. There are more managers than individual contributors. Expect to have to output updates to 5-10 different people. Office Space is not a fictional movie, it is real here. - I work with so many incompetent people. These are people who shouldn't be in their roles (engineers, test-engineers, product-managers). They slow everyone down and since they can't do their jobs properly, you have to do their jobs for them. There are a handful of people doing all the work while everyone else coasts and there are ZERO consequences for poor output. Your quarterly reviews mean nothing because your bonus isn't based on it. There are no peer reviews so what you think about a co-worker also doesn't matter. Low performers can keep their jobs for years here. - Speaking of that, a lot of leaders here have been with Trimble for 20-30 years, meaning, they know NOTHING else. Their world view is very narrow and they are far worse for it. - This is NOT a tech company. This is a company ran by suits and ties and tech is part of the solution. Don't expect to develop open source tools for the community or anything to better your domain. Don't expect to get support when you need resources, time, etc. Product/sales/marketing rules all and since they are non-technical, they have no idea what it takes to deliver quality products (with a few good exceptions). - Push for velocity is killing quality and processes are killing velocity, you are literally set up to fail. When you bring this up to any higher level executive or manager, they are always very surprised to hear this, but nothing is done about it. - Because they are so cheap with salaries, they opt to try and hire Juniors and overseas engineers, so you get a ton of inexperienced talent and or just out right awful talent from overseas with the bonus of a 12+ hour time difference. Super fun to try and make teams work to deliver products they will make many millions on. Add pressure to deliver and just throw quality out the window.