Be careful-this is not a good career move - Patent Analyst Cardinal Intellectual Property Employee Review

Very significant concerns here: Cardinal IP is directed by a strongly autocratic culture (several/majority of the upper management personnel are from India) that many employees find disconcerting, inconsistent, reactive, and occasionally downright rude. Missives sent out by one of those individuals always makes self-reference as "the management" in the third person. Petty, yes, but annoying nonetheless. Another significant concern: government contracting work--PCT patent searches--require relentless attention to detail that is not remotely ADEQUATELY compensated in the $300 per application pay, which can take up to several days to earn. Those who do this work struggle to reach the $40,000's, usually less. Let it be known to all outsiders: only those in a supervisory position who receive a review fee for each case they oversee, can expect to see a penny more. A little on-line searching will locate testimonials to this effect. And that requires 2 or more years of service. No benefits, a cranky virtual private network that goes offline during peak work hours, and an expectation of being available to receive non-essential emails even on weekends, rounds out the experience. This work is not analytical. It will NOT teach or burnish analytical skills. It will NOT bolster your resume', unless your next move is to a PTO searcher assignment. As a final FYI, essentially NONE of the managerial employees with a PTO patent agent or attorney credential are referenced on any issued patents. OK, I found 3 patents co-listing one CIP employee, but those patents were originally authored and filed by someone else. Any outsider can confirm this by running some names from Linked In through the USPTO agent roster. Those who can't practice...search. Cardinal IP is not a place to learn about the patent world. Take heed, nascent patent attorneys. Bottom line: ok place to learn some very limited and very specialized search techniques, at sub-market pay rates, but virtually no portability of those skills.