Agent AeroTek arranged the contact. On site with the manager and Principal EE, 1-2 hours duration. White board describing the product backplane board. Problem with a SPI bus that the PCB routing was split twice going to two plugged in PCB. design trouble shooting with a SPI bus that had bee

I interviewed with the West Sacramento location. The interview process is very long as it took 8-weeks from initial contact to hiring decision. I spoke with the recruiter over the phone and explained my medical device experience. The next week l spoke with the hiring manager with a mixture of behavioral and technical questions. It was important to understand biomedical standards for equipment. Two weeks later l was invited to an onsite interview with team members. Danaher provided reimbursement for transportation, food and an overnight stay at a local hotel. The interview process up until this point was very positive. The onsite visit would consist of 3 individual one-hour meetings and a team lunch. When l arrived l was given a tour of the facility by the new engineering manager, and we bumped into the previous manager of the team. He explained that he voluntarily stepped down so that the new manager could rebuild the engineering team. This was due to increased pressure from Danaher for impending audits (FDA?). All three team member interviewers seemed to be Boomer generation engineers who had decades with the company. It was at this point the interview process went off the rails. I was told Beckman Coulter's company history of being sold off multiple times to larger "mothership" entities such as Danaher. I overheard resentful comments about new productivity deadlines and the equipment migration. I thought they stayed with the company for all the wrong reasons. There was confusion about me wearing multiple hats as an electrical engineer in a startup company. It was implied that l was a job hopper for taking temporary contracts to pay bills before finding permanent employment (Covid Economy). There was a test for describing components on PCB board by hand (Part Number Recognition), but they themselves didn't know modern engineering tools. I was confused if they were intentonally trying to run me off or if they were really that disconnected from the larger engineering industry. I could get more detailed than this, but l think you get the picture. One week later the job was reposted with a lower salary with few applicants. They ghosted me for 3-weeks while weighing my candidacy against the new applicant pool. I told them about my new job offer and they finally ended my candidacy. I read a review by an engineer employed with the company and l found it to be very accurate. Pros: The recruiter frequently communicated when given feedback. The new hiring/engineering manager was mostly professional. Cons: Hiring decision was stalled to keep me as a candidate option. Team is a skeleton crew as previous/younger engineers jumped ship. 5 years behind equipment updates for new biomedical standards. Engineering position reposted with lower salary. Negative comments about Danaher parent company. What a mess.