Stay away from immature wannabe company... - Engineer CesiumAstro Employee Review

1.0
22 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free lunches on Thursday what a joke.

Cons

1- Highly political and incompetent management. 2- Toxic work environment. 3-Racist and mobbing practices. 4-No team cohesion. 5-Rampant credit theft aided supported by management. 6-Certain employees are considered untouchable and cause incredible harm. These are not geniuses either, they are fairly incompetent. 7- Promotions are based on brown nosing. Company doesn't learn from past mistakes, keeps repeating the same strategy over and over again assuming each time the result will be different. 8-Burnout culture without technical excellence or autonomy. 9-A great amount of the technical achievements in this company have been accomplished by people who left and they try to replace with worse candidates. 10-Below industry pay and benefits. 11- Test engineering team is a joke, they hide issues by making younger engineers work long hours to cover for the "manager" or managers hardware or software mistakes. Plus they go around damaging expensive equipment while mentoring or show and tell and higher managements let them get away with it. Have weekly one on one's where nothing gets' accomplished and they lie on your progress. Software mistakes covered up since they have no formal proven processes. 12-PTO is not paid out and performance reviews are a joke that nobody cares about even if you put 2-3 hours of hard work accomplished. 13- Sat/com system is 2 years behind schedule and they keep hiding the issues why it's not working, design and test team are not making progress. Rework is rampant because they don't build PCBA's correctly and hide the defects. 14-Production area in ATX is cramped and not actually ready for production testing, nothing was grounded especially the expensive equipment which caused many ESD events on expensive PCBA's. Good luck proven your process on hack job management direction. 15-True leadership does not start from CEO, if he cared he would see the damages his management team leaves behind and correct the easy mistakes other companies have rectified after 4 years. This company is doomed for failure so look elsewhere for a career advancement opportunity or first time role.

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5.0
11 May 2026
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Pros

You get to work with the smartest and best people in industry, on the most cutting-edge technology, with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build something revolutionary in our generation. The company is known in the industry as the “Lamborghini of antennas and communication systems” The startup culture is never going to fit just anyone and everyone. It is a company that grows over 100% yoy for many consecutive years, and of course the team is gonna feel the pain because that’s how fast things are growing in all directions. As a result, the teams are expected to figure out, run and deliver in the same fashion without all the luxury of time to build infrastructures around it. No startup survives in the competition and this market without churning through similar pains.

Cons

Growing pains are real but the changes are happening in the right directions - equity plan, bonus, pays, benefits are being adjusted as the company generates more revenue. People who stayed choose to solve these hard problems because they believe in the mission and the DNA of this place. The hours and workloads could be long, but it’s not terrible - I have worked at places with way worse work life balances.

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1.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free lunches on Thursdays and snacks

Cons

Toxic leadership, top down. Complete and utter chaos, coupled with delusion. It’s taxiing to be around so many people that are unhappy.

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