Teradyne

• Flexible work hours
• Chance to work in a wide range of technologies

• Cyclical business
• Growth in employees has stagnated
• Large cash balance, but hesitant to move into new markets

• Over the years the management practices have killed the experimental culture of continual improvement except in small pockets of the company
• The heavy focusing on short term investor desires has led to a stagnation of our stock price. Instead of being geared towards the best products, the culture has shifted towards a fear of not showing a profit. With a billion in cash, it is possible to have some areas which take short term losses, if the long term gain is promising.

The company is too quick to give up on markets.