Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Associate Software Engineer reviews

This depends on the group that you work in, but the work that you actually do potentially could be very dry. I worked in software and developed xml drivers for relays, which was mostly tedious work. Also there's a lot of churn with different groups, so projects usually end up taking way longer than anticipated. SEL is a big company, so there's a lot of bureaucracy that you have to face when trying to advocate for a change in process or a new project. SEL loves process, and favors that over adopting modern technologies. If you're a software engineer that wants to work on software that uses some hot new framework or library, SEL most likely won't be a good fit. Their flagship software product called QuickSet is a 20 year old Delphi application. Almost every project I've worked on involves maintenance work. On the spectrum of "cool, hip startup" to "enterprise corporation" SEL is a lot more on the corporation side.

Not too many downsides. Just experiencing some growing pains.