It's very much a boy's club culture at Ippon. It's a declining culture overall that has shifted significantly since the owner from France has relocated to the US to "help grow the company" which is extremely unfortunate. They do provide fun outings from time to time for employees, but the transparency and trust in which the prided themselves, is gone. There are no growth opportunities or investing in employees who are a part of the staff. I once asked my manager at the time if there were growth opportunities for me and he told me "no, the only growth is my job and I am not going anywhere." They also do not pay market rate for engineers in other locations outside of Richmond VA. Company has gone through 2 rounds of layoffs in 2023 so far, with employees slowly bleeding out due to the above mentioned reasons.