- Horrendously LOW PAY. It is a bold faced lie when management says they pay according to your experience level and within ATS corporate standards, they just want cheap labor to throw out at these job sites so they can collect contract pay until they can get steady work.
- The only way your pay can even come close to market standard, is through very extensive overtime. You shouldn't have to make market standard pay for controls engineering through heavy overtime, but unfortunately that is how this company feels.
- Enticing interview promising extensive training with a tour of the equipment and everything, that targets young recent graduates with minimal experience or individuals with degrees needing work in a new field. Ultimately, a lie as the training is barely structured and you may very well never do it. The only training you will receive guaranteed is the training you accomplish on your own in the endless downtime that is being at the office.
- Hired on as "engineer", only sent to do electrician/maintenance work
- On top of getting sent out to a job site for work you weren't
hired for, you may very well not know what you are actually doing
until you get there. Most of the time you're scrambling to find out
what to do or who to report to, which leads to time wasted and a
good reason we get booted from these job sites.
- Purposely kept in the dark about projects and expectations. You are fortunate if you have even the slightest clue as to what you are supposed to be doing, on a project or not.
- Can't keep local projects cause the company gets blacklisted for getting kicked out due to poor training/accidents/unclear expectations
- Excessive hours out in the field, never know what schedule you really have until you are at the job site.
- Usually less than a days notice for being sent on an assignment far away, and usually about the same notice for coming back if you're sent home early. No explanations are ever given.
- Rumors run rampant around the office, and somehow that is one of the more reliable ways of learning whats going on as far as potential work because management never seems to know what is going on until the day of.
- All of management comes from Michigan, so cronyism runs high if you are in any way heavily affiliated with Michigan. Favoritism from management determines whether or not you actually get to do anything or are able to stick around.
- The "Controls Engineer" or "Automation Engineer" positions are complete shams, a technician position (if even that) masquerading as engineering. The little amount of actual engineering here means it is a complete dead end, and you cannot grow/advance anywhere if you decide to stay at PA Solutions. The hourly rate (16, 18, 20/hr, not even close to market standard) and amount of experience you get here ensures you cannot move up anywhere unless you are good buddies with management or manage to get your foot in the door at a real company.
In summary, the biggest con about PA Solutions is the fact that PA Solutions is a con itself; a scam of a company, with how they treat their employees and how misleading they are. PLEASE look elsewhere, you can do better almost anywhere else. If you are forced to work here due to circumstance, start looking for other work immediately while you collect those sparse paychecks every Friday.
