CA Engineering Reviews

Lots of talk and not a lot of action when it comes to compensation. It is hard to meet with the CEO who has to approve all salary adjustments. It took months to get a small raise. There are talks of growth but when it comes down to it there isn't room to grow here. The management level they have has been there a long time and they don't seem to be promoting people from within. I never saw someone go from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer or Team Lead while I was there. A lot of 'company R&D'. There was a lot of my time not being billed to customers and just being billed to the company. I was never awarded ESOP shares/stock because of company performance.

There seemed to be a disconnect between discussions held between senior leadership and managers in charge of various teams. It seemed managers of various teams would be informed about customer complaints, needs, costs, concerns, goals etc., but some managers would not relay (proactively) the information downward towards the employees in the trenches. This left the employees in the trenches, who were working on projects for a customer, uninformed. Thank goodness Agile methodology was being used! Standup meetings was where customer information typically got shared with us in the trenches. Another issue was sometimes managers would not have a project for you to work on that would be permitted to be charged towards the customer. In those cases, your time would have to be charged against CA Engineering (which is expensive for a small business - you should ALWAYS charge your time to the customer if possible!) This caused engineers, working in the trenches, to try to come up with their own projects that might benefit the customer. An uncomfortable position if you don't have an over-all business picture with direct knowledge about customer concerns, complaints, needs, wants, etc.