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2.8

39% would recommend to a friend

(120 total reviews)
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Jim Ford

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44% positive business outlook

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2.0
Jul 9, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits. If you're not experienced in AV install it's a great place to learn. If you're willing to play the corporate game you can advance to a well paying position with great benefits.

Cons

I have never been micro managed more in my life. The ratio of office workers to install techs is absurd. For every install tech there are about 3 people in the office who need to justify having a salary.

1.0
Jul 8, 2021

Worst company I’ve ever worked for

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None, none, none, none, none

Cons

The cons are practically infinite. The owners, Mr. and Mrs. Ford cover are way past retirement age and it shows. Their senility is definitely questionable. They have no respect for anybody, and only value the money they rake in. There is blatant favoritism shown towards engineers and account managers, while the true backbone of the company, the division coordinators and installers, and inventory control are basically second class citizens. Working extremely long hours, and getting paid far less than the average wages for their positions.

2.0
Jun 30, 2021

Future Engineers beware

Recommend
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Pros

° Money is decent ° cool people you work with ° travel if you're into that (expect to get homesick though)

Cons

° For project engineer in training (PEIT) theyres 3 phases 1. Install phase 2. Field engineerimg phase 3. Project engineering phase You'll definitely be on install.phase for more than 6 months expect a year unless the division you're working for is in dire need of project engineers. The company always does what's best for them so if they're short on install technicians than you'll be helping install. If the company says they got a lot of work remember that all this WORK needs to go through install phase before any testing or engineering work can be done on it. If you don't have a passion for audio and video systems DO NOT work here and waste your talents just cause it's the first job that offers you it. Expect to kiss buttocks a lot if you wanna move up. Work environment can be toxic , and stressful for the pay. Not worth it. Once you make it pass install phase though, the work shifts around to a more chill work environment. But before that happens make sure you have your steel toe boots , tools , hard hat, safety glasses and gloves ready, that you will have to pay for. Again don't work here if you expect to get networking experience. It's very minimal and you won't get hands on engineering until a year later so save yourself time and look elsewhere or else you'll.be stuck in an unmotivated loop with no skillsets to take with you and land a better job.

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