sortimat Reviews

I had 5 different supervisors in the first 10 months of employment, that should tell you everything you need to know as a controls engineer. Productive Employee retention is a terrible problem. They retain some of the worst possible controls engineers, engineers paralyzed by over analysis. All because those people are easily lead "yes people" Competency is a terrible problem on many levels. They hire many employees directly out of school, with zero experience. Projects are driven my irrational budgetary and scheduling numbers. Project managers never listen to objections. Managers are only trying to save their jobs, especially now that they are being enveloped by LS Cambridge. These same managers will stab you in the back (Wear Kevlar) in order to save themselves. The majority of the engineering pool is either recent graduates, graduates with less than 5 years of experience, or older engineers that are consumed by analysis paralysis. Mistakes are continuously being made at huge expense to projects. Engineers are not directed to learn from their mistakes. There are no long time (over 8 years) engineers on staff at all. This should have told me something immediately. Time is the only element that matters. If a machine has passed its schedule it will be shipped and repairs/alterations will be made in the field at whatever expense is necessary. The Management should not be employed anywhere at any level. One meeting with the management will illustrate the old saying, "It's not what you know, it's who you know". Very very under-qualified. They love their Kaizens, institutional wisdom, and Sortimat’s lethargic inertia. They would have a Kaizen about anything, regardless of productivity. After the Kaizen they would applaud all of the efficiencies created. However everything is forgotten and nothing is ever implemented except more meetings about having more meetings. This is the institutional mentality run amok.

A lot of turnover Can't compete with other companies salaries Success is not based on merit, but time spent at the company