Vantaggi
I wish I had the option to give 3.5 stars instead of 3. The work itself, the people you work with, and the majority of my day to day activities are worthy of a 5 star review. + As an engineer or manager at Formulatrix, you're given a lot of freedom and trust to go about your work as you see fit. + The type of work I did was very engaging. + Nobody will scold you for "failing", but rather failures are seen as an opportunity to learn and grow. + Worked with great groups of people. + Everyone is willing to stop what they're doing to help you with a problem or to teach you something. + There's a lot of flexibility. + I personally really enjoyed working with the Indonesian teams and being able to visit Indonesia, but I'm not sure what that's like now with covid. + I felt like I had sufficient compensation. + Never had any job security concerns. Formulatrix is very financially stable.
Svantaggi
- The way Formulatrix is structured, it favors the company over the employees. - The CEO is a business man and everything is more or less approved by him. He treats employees like a business asset and not as people. He's not a malicious person, but he's in his own bubble. For example, I saw many people burn out, he was very aware of this, and no changes were made. I never saw any ownership of this issue on the company's part and most of the blame put on the burnt out employee. - Unavoidable early morning and late night meetings. I learned to delegate and manage these meetings better over time, but this always interrupted my life outside of work. - Not everyone's compensation is fair. The gap between the lowest and highest paid people significantly grew while I was there. Most other people, especially in Indonesia, deserved to be treated better. - 9 holiday days in the US, seems a bit low for the industry. - US office lacked diversity relative to the makeup of graduating engineering classes. - The health insurance the company provides is rather expensive for a family plan. Everyone who had a working spouse would use their spouse's insurance. - Indonesia has a different culture than the US which is a good thing. The bad thing is that we would generally try to force the US working culture on them instead of at least meeting them halfway or learning from them. - The CEO told the employees to go onto glassdoor and leave positive reviews instead of making the lives of his employees better and having that happen naturally.