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Lies to Customers, Technology not Developed - Engineer Drymax Solutions Employee Review

1.0
14 Sept 2021
Recommend
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Pros

No need for an engineering degree because the "CEO" has a marketing degree but could have "gotten a full scholarship for engineering" if he wanted to. Comradery over hating your boss and constantly making fun of how this was never going to work but doing it anyways. If your a desperate college grad it's experience that you can put on a resume, don't expect to learn much unless you take the initiative.

Cons

Within the first month I was searching for another job. Forced to drive to Colorado and set up a prototype that we had just managed to get working the week before made from plywood and metal plates. Dangerous environment working next to RF with no safety equipment, high energy and open dryers. Then having to lie to customers when the CEO overpromised what we could deliver but the check had already been cashed. A Ponzi scheme in the simplest form. After Colorado it was a revolving door of "over 50 products" that all had varying chemical make up and drying behavior. This was only done to collect the small fee we charged to "analyze" the material. But don't expect to spend your time figuring out how to dry products. Instead spend your time loading, unloading, and driving the tons of corn and soybeans to the poorly situated facility and loading the material into supersacks to rot and spray up huge amounts of dust. The pay was barely enough to live off of and the promises of "bonuses and shares of the company" were always delayed for one reason or another. He will hire you as an "intern" to pay you the least amount possible then never bring you on full time. Expects you to do all the work and then take the credit with no compensation. I still remember when I got my offer for my next job, best day there.

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3.0
14 Feb 2023
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Pros

I enjoyed the freedom that the company gave me as a software developer: I was given the desired outcome and I worked towards it

Cons

I was pushed to do less software work and more physical labour R&D work closer to the end of my employment there

1.0
1 Oct 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Coworkers are nice and fun to talk to

Cons

Not much say in research or design, everything is overruled by the boss and ultimately you just feel like you are his puppet to build. Time is really limited, you are given too much work to actually complete at once and you are forced to work sloppy or carelessly to keep up. The initial proposed work for the job is much different from the actual work. You do much more cleaning then actual engineering and the boss constantly will ask you to stop what you are doing and clean rather then preform vital experiments. The boss is very condescending and doesn't show much if any respect to his employees. It felt as if the boss did not care about employees or employees time or employees knowledge and would overrule what ideas the employees would offer in design and research You are forced to work long shifts and weekends seemingly at whim of the boss. I guess this is a positive cause you might actually get the amount of money you should be payed from the overtime. You get to clean a lot, which is great if you want to learn how to better use the vacuum or want to be better at sweeping the floor. 0/5

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Drymax Solutions Response
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Interns are hired to learn and grow into a new science that is not taught in text books. We are R&D, designing, modeling and developing prototypes. Interns have built things on their own, with flexibility, that do not work, and it can take 3-6 weeks out of a very time pressured commitment to a customer. It is important to work together and find a path of best hopes of success. Interns may not have the skillset to build a very complex prototype without direction. We appreciate the contributions of all our interns. DryMAX is a drying company, and things arrive wet and must be dried. Materials can be easy or smelly or hard to work with, but all will rot if left more than 2 days. To preserve a customers' material and cost of experimenting, there are times that employees are asked to work different shits or weekends. This is the nature of drying - some material is only available during harvest. We request before we hire that all understand the nature of what we do here.
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