Pros
Some consider MTS to be an engineer's playground. Great work life balance - able to work core 9-3hours and have flexibility and no micromanaging. Salary used to be excellent within TE and SAM structures. Now extremely hard to become a senior engineer due to poor employee valuation and promotion growth strategy. Good travel locations for customers - Europe, China, Japan, and USA. Great employees at the bottom, most supervisors are good. Extremely competent staff and friendly employees (a few bad apples do spoil us and prevent efficiency).
Cons
Little room for growth as of 2011. Little training for engineers after 3years. Understaffed in all engineering areas. Overstaffed in middle and upper management. Not enough floor space at EP facility. Many barriers and between groups for efficient project flow. Many new and high tech/glamorous technologies: the flash of formula 1 racing systems, automotive car testing equipment, airplane component testing, and other impactful engineering projects are sold. However, dysfunctional new management is changing the culture of the company into a widget factory mentality, but not having success in the process thus far and dim outlook. MTS has a history of solving complex engineering issues and being able to charge accordingly for the knowledge. Now however, most projects are delivered late, are understaffed and underscoped, and in a constant scramble for resources to complete. Only through the "good" of the employees is MTS able to keep delivering systems to customers. Sadly, this is slowly fading as morale drops. Management is in yes-mode currently, only looking upwards so their own job isn't slashed. Top heavy organization with too many directors, VPs, and middle management who cannot make a decision to save their life, even if for the good of the organization. This is why MTS will suffer in the 2014-2018 years unless change is made. Get Bill Murray back. Jeff is a chest beating-sweet talker with no strategy and ineffective minions driving the company south. The ones at the bottom are keeping the organization afloat, but a strategy of "the boats have been burned" and "investments have been made" is not panning out. Management has signed MTS up for a lofty goal of becoming a $1B organization. Fat chance. MTS could achieve $750-800M annually if it became efficient and speedy. Unfortunately, new processes/procedures with understaffing in engineering has led to projects being slow, disorganized, and lower in margin than the past. Some say there are "Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians".