Pros
If you like to work on CAD drawings all day with unrealistic deadlines and dealing with management direction change on a daily basis then this is the place for you.
Cons
The engineering work environment at the PDC is high stress and the amount of people churn is unbelievable. It is rare that a project will finish with at least 25% of the the original team members that started on it. Forget about performance reviews as it is not uncommon to be shuffled around like a deck of cards and work under different manager over the course of a year that have no clue of your skill set, experiences or prior achievements. Management has no clear direction except time lines and it is not uncommon to get an email at 2:00pm requesting a new task to be completed before COB without regards to your other work commitments. If you don't deliver you will get "you did not meet my expectations and are not planning for success". Managers will talk out of both sides of their mouth and never make commitments, while having perfect 20/20 hind sight on why missed deadlines are due to your lack of commitment. Going above and beyond to resolve issues is rarely recognized and will usually come back to bite you. CYA is the name of the game there so if you do take a job make sure you save every email. Ask for help on a project and the typical response is "get me your action plan for how you are going to resolve this". There are just too many layers of managers leading to a high level of dysfunction. Excessive paperwork and documentation on their design methodology prevents any time for true innovation or design work be completed. Managers are concerned with "checking the box" for documentation rather than the true design being correct and reliable, but they will preach otherwise when the situation calls for it. If you interview most likely the people you talk to were selected randomly and will not be your direct co-workers as you will be assigned a different role once you walk in the door. It is not uncommon for them to shuffle around EEs to do ME work and MEs doing electrical products - reflects managements lack of interest in developing talent and more interested in developing "engineering robots" that can be tossed around to fight one fire to the next. Excessive meetings are used and scheduled to discuss every little detail which leaves little or no time for actual work to take place. Not uncommon to be double or tipple booked for meetings during any given hour of the day. If you get into a crunch expect daily or even hourly status update meetings with managers who add no value to the task at hand and only want to know when the issue will be resolved and why you are behind schedule - well maybe if you quit the hourly meetings we could get some work done and resolve the issue. No ratings were select as can not give them any stars and would rate as negative if option was available.
