Hatch reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(86 total reviews)
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John Bianchini

66% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

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3.0
Jun 13, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- Challenging and very interesting projects - Decent offices - Great workmates - Good work-life balance - Try avoid layoffs during the downtimes and keep expertise continuity

Cons

- Old boys club: Shareholder and/or Associate level is not reached by merits, it is all a secret - In my team we have excellent technical managers, but awful people managers - Bonuses should not even be treated as bonuses, feel more like a pat on the back - Lots of travelling, which is great experience for young engineers, but comes at the cost of low incentives, which is not good when you have reached a senior level - Big gap between junior and senior engineers

2.0
Mar 11, 2014

Lesson learned

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Salary, benefits. (see note on vacations in Cons).

Cons

- Hatch is like a modern day sweatshop - only difference is that they do engineering/consulting work. Everything is driven by project work for clients. Once there are no projects, you are out of there .(HR may try to tell they otherwise - that they are employee focused, and they value their resources, etc., etc.) - You spend too much time learning *hatch-isms* - would be better off learning generic technology, but Hatch's system is so convoluted, you get lost trying to keep up. - Have to give up ~10 vacation days each season for Christmas shutdown! What??? - Late evening/night meetings -> this is OK except there is no official way to account for the time spent working extra time.

3.0
Feb 27, 2014

Mechanical Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

The work I performed here was challenging and interesting. What made it interesting was the excellent lead engineer I worked with. He has over 30 years expertise in his field and an obvious passion for it. My workmates were also great.

Cons

The Professional Development Program (PDP) could be a bit more structured. A better "team" environment could have also been emphasised, but this was probably just characteristic of the office I worked. Overall though, it was a decent company to work for and the pay was good.

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