Good training, terrible job. - Anonymous employee usCalibration Employee Review

2.0
13 Mar 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The training to do the work is really well done. Pay is okay. The other employees are a good group of people. The other employees are hard workers and willing to help each other at the drop of a hat. The owner is a mixed bag, some pros and some cons.

Cons

"Hard Work", as mentioned in other reviews, doesn't mean working hard here. It means 12-14 hour days filled with driving and manufacturing your own work. By that I mean you're required to generate a specific amount of money for the company each day even if they send you on a job where you're driving half the day and the job is a low dollar amount. They want you to return to the lab and pump out more work until you meet the quota even if its 7 or 8pm. The emphasis on meeting your quota, one which they just raised, is such a point of emphasis that you have to look at a workbook of spreadsheets daily to assess your shortcomings, followed by emails, explanations analysis and remedial work if you fail to keep your quota fulfilled. This is the case even if they send to to multiple jobs they know will not meet your quota. Guess where management is while your doing your remedial work, you know because they didn't provide you with enough work to fulfill your quota, they’re at home while you try to reach the magic number they set you up to not reach. All of this along with other annoyances have employee moral at an all time low. some of the blame falls on the increasingly inept traveling salesmen who will frequently misquote and underestimate jobs. no trouble for him because he has no quota, although he should.

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5.0
7 Apr 2023
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Pros

Great training and pay. Lots of support form coworkers.

Cons

Challenging to learn new role at first, but good support so not too bad. Long drives some days.

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5.0
22 Jan 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Rapidly growing company, hurtling across the steppes and destroying the competition. - Employees are extremely intelligent; some have degrees from elite universities, e.g. MIT & Berkeley. There is nobody from Everest College or Compton Community College here (not saying those aren't outstanding institutions). - Field engineers are friendly and always up for a discussion about Skyrim, Schrödinger's Cat, Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons, etc. - Salary raises here are generally much larger than the typical 3% you'd get at other companies. - Employees conduct themselves in an utterly professional manner at all times. - Generous benefits. - Outstanding leadership: it's like Steve Jobs and W. Edwards Deming had a baby. - Everybody here is super sharp. Incompetent employees are read the riot act and summarily fired. - Convenient parking. - Fun company parties. - Employees with Asperger's can succeed here. - The pride and satisfaction that comes with knowing you are part of a world-class team. - Japanese business philosophies.

Cons

- Located in Irvine, a master-planned community that is the height of suburban banality. - Office is in the euphemistically named Skypark Business Center, which is home to a variety of sleazy massage parlors and marijuana gardening stores. I'm surprised there's no Check into Cash yet. Also, exasperatingly difficult to have a conversation outdoors with all the low-flying airplanes overhead. - Meetings tend to run long; grab some Provigil beforehand if you're the type to have trouble focusing. - Sausage fest: very few women working here. - Disproportionate number of UCI grads working here.

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