Waters Principal Software Engineer reviews

3.9

98% would recommend to a friend

(15 total reviews)
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Udit Batra

66% approve of CEO

83% positive business outlook

Principal Software Engineer employees have rated Waters with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 15 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Waters is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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15 reviews
3.0
Dec 22, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Waters provides a good work life balance. Good Benefits.

Cons

The work life balance is costly as they pay way less than the average salary in the Boston area.

3.0
Jul 1, 2017

Watch Out

Recommend
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Pros

Company is profitable, many people have worked there for decades. Great commuting location. Modern facility, kept up to date. A lot of very smart, very educated people around. People are very willing to help, when not forbidden by management.

Cons

Upper Management has abdicated software management to Ph.D.'s who know absolutely nothing about software. Huge degree snobbery. If you haven't got a British accent and a degree from a British university, you are "headcount" (a term used to describe American developers of any level); no respect is due, even if you have multiple degrees (from American universities) and decades of software development experience. Its very hard for "headcount" to get promoted. Managers who have failed and failed and failed are still in charge, those with successful track records are pushed aside based, as far as I can tell, purely on national origin. I do not know of a single American software developer who thinks that the software management is competent. Enough said.

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