Salary is not market competitive. This is not just my opinion or the numerous talented engineers who have left before me for higher pay and more PTO, they literally brought in a third party market analysis research firm to conduct a year long analysis ending in 2020 for salaries, benefits, and perks. All three areas were deemed "below markets". Markets in plural because of the three office locations (St. Louis, MO, Madison, WI, and Anaheim, CA) were all deemed below market. There are no year end bonuses, which doesn't help. PTO is abysmal. Doesn't matter if you are hired with 10+ years of experience and half a dozen weeks of prior vacation or a newly grad, EVERYONE starts out at 17 days of combined vacation and choicetime days. Paternal leave is also substantially below market. Salary bands and PTO policy are inherited from the parent company, so that's why. Upper management loves to express how "Entegral is an IT Software Development company, separate from its parent company which is not an IT Software Development company." (choosing not to say who is the parent company but you can easily find it on entegral's website). However, for the several years Entegral has been under its parent company...the salary, benefits, and PTO policies are the exact same as that parent company. Madison office has an incredibly tough time attracting engineers for this reason, and an even tougher time retaining talent. From what I heard, the same can be said from the St. Louis team. About 80% of the St. Louis team's engineers, from what I remember as of early 2020, were poached from the parent company because they couldn't attract or compete with other companies in the market. Don't know about Anaheim's engineering group. Work wise, you will certainly encounter the political and bureaucracy-styled product management culture. Most of management transferred from the parent company, hence that style. If you're used to it or consider your pay worth putting up for, then stay. But if not, then this isn't the place for you. You will be told "your voice matters", but at the end of the day, your voice goes through one ear and out the other of those who actually make the decisions.
