Pros
Most of the engineers are sharp and innovative people who are a pleasure to work with.
Cons
The new leadership that came into power (I use the term "came into power" intentionally) is filled with dirty politics, presents amazingly delirious ambitions, and responds with hostility to any sort of criticism or constructive feedback. This leadership has replaced most of the executive team with staff members that have followed each other from one company to the next. In order to keep your job here, you are required to become a mindless lackey. The company's prior leadership had a fantastic culture of collaboration and inclusive brainstorming, making staff feel like they were truly part of the team. They used to work with employees to develop their careers, distributing additional responsibility hand-in-hand with additional compensation. That has all dissolved away and has been replaced by a dictatorship that I suspect will drive the company into the ground. Engineers here are squeezed for whatever they're worth. Numerous bonus programs have been created and then rescinded before they ever pay out. Junior engineers are paid extremely modest entry level salaries, and as they gain experience, their salaries remain nearly the same until they eventually realize what they are worth in the market and leave. Leadership repeatedly claims that your salary is "only icing on the cake", and you should work here because of the fantastic people and exciting technology. There is no equity options available to engineers, nor is there any reasonable expectation of raises and/or bonuses, so I'm not quite sure what the leaderships believes the incentive should be to employees. Statements like that one are just flat-out insulting, especially when they come from senior leadership that you know are compensated so much higher than you are. The only way to gain favor with management is to publicly shower them with flattery, and there has been several examples of this sort of brown-nosing winning people positions far beyond what they are qualified for. This simply continues the toxic spiral of putting more and more egocentric and under-qualified folks in senior level positions. The leadership is also dramatically out-of-touch with the niche market the company competes in and talks of fantasies where the company will soon become king of whatever the new technology buzz-word of the year is. "5G? Yeah, we can do that. IoT? We'll soon dominate that space." It sounds like just the talk that would come from a completely non-technical business person who's industry experience comes from reading the Tech section of Breitbart... The new CEO entered the company with so much talk of unifying the three separate companies that were merged to form what is now ATX. This is probably about the only thing he's ever stated that I actually agreed with, but his new regime's attempt to make this happen has been a complete failure. Most of the hard-working and well qualified staff members have left, been fired, or were forced to resign. Those who remain are most definitely not going to stay for much longer, whether they voice their dissatisfaction or do not. There's frantic efforts to replace the dwindling resources in whatever way possible, including outsourcing to the cheapest bidder. While I won't say that outsourcing is necessarily a bad idea for the business, it does require management capable of handling remote teams, which no longer exists at the company. Even if that management were there, the company's leadership is clueless in regards to direction/vision that may make the company successful.
