Vantaggi
- Rapidly growing company, hurtling across the steppes and destroying the competition.
- Employees are extremely intelligent; some have degrees from elite universities, e.g. MIT & Berkeley. There is nobody from Everest College or Compton Community College here (not saying those aren't outstanding institutions).
- Field engineers are friendly and always up for a discussion about Skyrim, Schrödinger's Cat, Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons, etc.
- Salary raises here are generally much larger than the typical 3% you'd get at other companies.
- Employees conduct themselves in an utterly professional manner at all times.
- Generous benefits.
- Outstanding leadership: it's like Steve Jobs and W. Edwards Deming had a baby.
- Everybody here is super sharp. Incompetent employees are read the riot act and summarily fired.
- Convenient parking.
- Fun company parties.
- Employees with Asperger's can succeed here.
- The pride and satisfaction that comes with knowing you are part of a world-class team.
- Japanese business philosophies.
Svantaggi
- Located in Irvine, a master-planned community that is the height of suburban banality.
- Office is in the euphemistically named Skypark Business Center, which is home to a variety of sleazy massage parlors and marijuana gardening stores. I'm surprised there's no Check into Cash yet. Also, exasperatingly difficult to have a conversation outdoors with all the low-flying airplanes overhead.
- Meetings tend to run long; grab some Provigil beforehand if you're the type to have trouble focusing.
- Sausage fest: very few women working here.
- Disproportionate number of UCI grads working here.