Pros
- Decent compensation - Healthy industry - Some good people still work there
Cons
I’d say there are about 4 different “teams” within, all competing with each other for power within the organization. Managers will ask professionals with years of experience about a subject only to minimize or outright ignore their input if it does not align with what they want to hear. Therefore, if you do not yourself join a team you will quickly find yourself left out in the cold with little support from your manager. My first manager had little management experience and was in over his head in regards to the responsibilities he had just inherited. I wasted a year of my professional career under someone who had no business managing a hot dog stand let alone a team of engineers, running our department into the ground while upper management did nothing. Eventually he was let go, but not before causing considerable damage. You may be tasked with integrating a process only to find roadblocks in your way from other departments with no support from your manager. Later you will be reprimanded for not making any progress on any front, despite you being the only one who has been making any effort at improvement. This environment winds up breeding a culture of nobody willing to take initiative for improving processes or tools, knowing they will make themselves a target to someone for threatening the “status quo” while their manager does nothing to support them. This is not a difficult industry. As there is only one other real competitor, you simply need to perform, but they fail to do so time and time again due to this toxic culture of infighting. Most other companies with this environment would have folded long ago, but the lack of competition keeps Nikkiso alive.
