Vantaggi
The old school senior test engineers are truly excellent and reliable.
Svantaggi
Performance evaluation is unfair. People say it's a bell curve. Well it's not. How could it be bell curve if the highest score you can get is 3. Then once something went wrong, you got 2 and let go. No matter how outstanding you perform, you'll get a three. The department requires that every team needs to give a 2 to somebody no matter how well people perform. What a sick rule! Hard working subject matter experts who worked their butt off and got real work done receive average score like everybody else. How will this motivate anybody? Management has no interest in learning new technology and doesn't appreciate the innovation from their team. They used to hire brilliant people from top universities. Now newer folks mostly come from Boise State or some other unknown colleges in rural Idaho. Why bother getting the sharp kids when turnover rate is so high? Absolutely no work-life balance. Working with technicians overseas is painful as heck as they have very minimal English fluency. Can't get anything done, but have to deal with it since Boise back end manufacturing was shut down.