4.0
4 Sept 2008
Former employee
Troy, MI
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
SMW is a Good starting place. It is relatively easy to move into different areas and learn all the aspects of manufacturing, quality, testing... Since it is a small size company, it is very reactive and upper management is not far from the engineer making suggestions, requests, easier to be heard.
Cons
As in many small size companies, employees free time is often treated as company time (week end or holiday travel for business…). The work environment can be very stressful due to lack of senior engineers / managers. The proximity of the upper management / owners can create conflicting requests. Compensation is ok but could be improved and made fair in regards to the work.