Pros
The engineering team I worked with was really great and they made the experience a lot better.
Cons
Upper management has some big issues. There are strong suspicions amongst the staff of wage discrimination against women. Upper management has excuses why, but it’s not hard to see through the thinly veiled pattern that women are making less then men in comparable positions. In addition, I had to deal with the onslaught of sexist comments from upper management, as well as their statements that they were “uncomfortable with a woman in my position” and their suggestions for me to move to a position “more suited for a woman” (i.e. administrative roles, not engineering). Luckily the engineering team backed me and made sure that did not happen. All of the engineers were treated very poorly and taken advantage of. On top of the poor treatment, the pay is very low. They hire engineers straight out of college so they can treat them/pay them unfairly. Don’t believe the VPs sentiment that you have to “pay your dues.” Eakas has to pay its dues by paying their workers a fair wage. They are starting to face the consequences of this treatment with severe short staffing. I can’t imagine they will be able to hire new workers without big changes to their business structure.