Vantaggi
It made me put at least one star, and now it's making me enter five words. There is nothing to put here.
Svantaggi
Too much garbage in this dumpster fire to put here. See reviews from July 7 2021, Dec 7 2020, Dec 19 2019, and Sept 12 2019, they align perfectly with my experience. There were two others from late 2020 written by former engineers that were 100% spot on but for some reason I don't see them here now. Essentially they were pointing to the nepotism, management in engineering and executive level being completely unqualified to manage the company's pet project, etc. Think about all of the things a trained, educated professional would dread in an employer; this is it. Cascade cuts so many corners, it's surprising the aircraft aren't circular when they leave. But it's not cutting corners when you call it "lean manufacturing". Working at Cascade is like being in an abusive relationship. Management will say that they'd like to make improvements and they know there are problems, but they will never actually step up and fix them. Cascade management puts in just enough effort to appear as if things may change to string the younger engineers they take advantage of along for as long as possible. For about a year the company has put out many anonymous surveys in an "effort" to identify problems and come up with solutions. However when the most deeply rooted problems in the company are brought up, there is either no response, or some sort of one-sentence childish comeback from COO Kevin Lemke. These responses are better suited for playground disputes regarding a game of tag, rather than actual substantial problems a company that is trying to scale up is facing. Kevin uses the fact that he once worked as an engineer as an excuse to flippantly dismiss and concerns or problems engineering has. At the same time, he constantly tells engineering they're lucky to have a former engineer as an executive. In Kevin Lemke's mind, he is God's gift to engineering. In reality, he cultivates a horrendously toxic atmosphere.