Essential Design Reviews

Since each person is often working on multiple projects (in different stages of the development process) at once, the work requires people who can multitask, keep the "big picture" for each project in view, and still focus on the important details. Some people aren't suited to this. (This is par-for-the-course for consulting firms, but different than most corporate jobs.) Disciplines (research, design, engineering) are relatively "silo-ed", sometimes working in an independent / separated manner rather than collaborating cohesively throughout a project. The industrial design team sometimes struggles with thinking through the manufacturability of their concepts, leading to frustratingly iterative debates with the engineering team.

The upper-level/older engineering staff is condescending to & dismissive of women (regardless of their qualifications or experience level), and the management is not very good at communicating feedback, expectations, or future needs.