Good benefits, interesting work, and opportunities for advancement for early-career people as the boomer wave retires. There are lots of locations and opportunities for travel.
Lots of turmoil in management structure, constant threat of job relocation and layoff, morale low among experienced people due to all of the above. Aging facilities at many locations.
Pick a management structure and stick with it for a while.
Stop moving work around the country, assuming that engineers are interchangeable widgets and that years of experience can be replaced by hiring someone fresh out of school.
Standard structural interview questions. There was a panel of 5 people for an in-person interview. Representatives included HR, 3 managers, and an advanced technical person. Questions were mostly behavioral types. There was only one technical questio
Structured interview process with pre-determined questions and a panel of a manager, an employee, and an HR person.
Longish interview process. Exam for internal hires. Not sure about external hires. The process was more difficult than when I was hiring as an individual contributor. It seems like they weigh technical and cultural fit fairly high.
Standard structural interview questions. There was a panel of 5 people for an in-person interview. Representatives included HR, 3 managers, and an advanced technical person. Questions were mostly behavioral types. There was only one technical questio
Structured interview process with pre-determined questions and a panel of a manager, an employee, and an HR person.
Longish interview process. Exam for internal hires. Not sure about external hires. The process was more difficult than when I was hiring as an individual contributor. It seems like they weigh technical and cultural fit fairly high.