Glenair

Pay is somewhat median compared to the rest of the market; however be prepared for no reviews and raises.nnSomewhat of a good social setting as there are some really good and nice people here. Frequent gatherings by employees who bring in food for small celebrations.nnRelatively laid back if you're part of the in-group cronies of the CTO and other VPs; otherwise you have to keep a low profile to avoid being a target.nnThe reputed no lay off policy can be good for older workers who're trying to hang on until retirement.nnThe flip side of the above is:nnThey use the "bonus" as both carrot and stick to threaten you to fail in line and be the obedient drone (pod people). They have on more than a few occasions taken away that bonus from many people without any reason nor performance review for areas of improvement.nnThe "bonus" gets taxed like crazy and double-taxed; so it's better if it's in the form of a 401K or IRA and matching contributions.nnUnfortunately, the no lay off policy means that the slacker cronies and egotistical upper management keeps them around so that the non-crony workers are harrassed and bullied by them as scapegoats for product failures.nn"No lay offs" mean that the cronies will harass you until you get sick and leave on your own.nnI've been in meetings where the only things the yes men said were literally: "yes, yes, yes. That's a great idea. I think you're absolutely right that's the way to do it. It's brilliant." to the CTO and cronies.nnAfterwards, the non-crony workers are "assigned" tasks that the cronies refuse to do themselves. Despite the purported "flat structure," there's definitely a hierarchy of non-official crony managers who harass workers. Some of them are so egotistical as to claim out loud they're "appointed hitman lieutenant for the CTO who doesn't want to get his hand dirty."nnSo that means any mistake you find as a professional engineer, they'll blame you for it and not the cronies. It's one of the worst places I've seen this level of dirty office politics.nnOn top of that, there are certain cronies who don't do any work and brown nose all day and keep trying to brush off their projects unto others. So that means the workers who're trying to help finish projects will then get bullied by them to either do their projects or else be threatened with that aforementioned "bonus" be taken away.nnAsk around why the Raytheon group left and who's driving everyone away. There's a reason why dozens of people left because of the same group of people: CTO and his yes men cronies.nnIt's literally Invasion of the Body Snatches right now as they're trying to replace all the worker bees with their own hornets and pod people who all say "yes, yes, yes" at the CTO meetings.nnLook into anonymous review systems whereby people who literally are trying to help and professional give feedback aren't going to be targets and on the chopping block.

It started off great, people that know their job, friendly and with room to grow. nSuddenly, after 4 months, I got laid off for "unsatisfactory performance", being that I have asked a couple of weeks before to my manager about my permanency and she said it was a done deal, I would get hired by the company. nSo I don't get it, the reason for the layoff when I was working hard to get hired.nI guess it's a good company if you don't happen to get laid off for no reason.

Wow Great Company and very good growth.Nice company to work...

I visited Glenair several times from the mid 90's till 2011. (the next visit is planned in May 2013). I am always impressed by the new building that were build and how the company grows and extends.nIn those years I done bussiness with Glenair for different companies and the 'welcome' by the Glenair emplyees is always warm and quite impressive.

Great company to work for