mechanical engineer

inside sales manager

Littelfuse

After completing my BS in engineering, I had the opportunity to put into practice my education and gaining the first had experience with the satisfaction of obtaining positive results. Everyday was a new challenge and working with cross functional team members really enriched the experience on making things happened and see the business grow. I enjoyed working with all levels of co-workers, from Operators, Quality, Materials, Sales & Marketing, Engineering and Upper Management teams as well as suppliers and customers which are a big part of who I am as a professional.
The most difficult part of my job is working the long hours and being away from my family, which I strive to be with and nourish. My family is what keeps me moving forward and enjoying life and we mature and move to the latter years in life. My family is my inspiration in my life.
I enjoy what I do as a professional and strive to do better every time, both at work and in my professional life. I enjoy working with people and being a part of a team, a second family at work.
I have learned that working hard and striving to excellence is the road to success in both Professional and Personal matters. Working for Littelfuse, Inc. has been great experience that motivates me moving forward.

Multi-national company offering lots of experience in forecasting and variance analysis.  Manufacturing can be highly profitable, almost shockingly so compared to other fields.  Success depends upon well planned capital purchases and constant monitoring, along with recognizing growth opportunities.  
Read their historical quarterly reports to get a good feel for the company.  Top level executive changes are not uncommon, and their compensation and bonuses are both significant...they are typically motivated to put more on the bottom line through tax strategies and cost cutting.
Unfortunately, this has led to the company being a US  company with most manufacturing in other countries where wages and benefits are only a small portion of what costs are in the U.S. If you can live with this strategy you will be well compensated even in a middle management role.


My manager had a habit of using "mommy talk" which made me feel disrespected. She also seemed to sweep people aside if there was something she felt she needed to do. She is very intelligent, but lacks people skills, and tended to place people in boxes. I worked with a long term employee who tried to get me to quit by demoralizing me with comments about my behavior or about something I said. She and another department member laughed all afternoon one day after making me miserable, the only day they did. Other than that, work was stressed to perform faster. Not many chances for advancement or job changes.

I have worked here for 4 years. Upper management and most staff are not as friendly as they could be.
 The constant overtime is not worth it unless you are a work-a-holic and have nothing better to do.
 While the compensation is not all together bad, you are expected to be a model employee. No tardies, no unplanned absences,work the overtime, no gossiping and do your job effectively and efficiently.
Given the opportunity to work here again, I would not because of certain individuals in management and how poorly they treat the employees.

It is a small, growing company and so the workload is high. Management is poor, lacks communication and ability to lead. The company itself consists of many smaller company acquisitions and so the structure is poor and unnecessarily complicated. It's difficult to understand who is responsible for what area of business and things are constantly changing as the business is restructuring. It is a casual business culture with a very small office of less than 20 people in Fremont.

Considering corperate has decided that closing rapid city and moving our jobs to mexico was a good idea, it will take mexico at least 5 years to meet  the quality we were putting out because they are hiring all new peaple.  They know how to make fuses in mexico not circuit boards.  And more importantly, the products we made in Rapid City will no longer be able to say MADE IN AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mandatory overtime for 5 years I was there. Time with your family was not a concern. Sometimes very stressful environment. Management had so much red tape a simple decision could take weeks or months to be made to improve production or quality or not at all. After closing plants all over the world and bringing them to this plant they just decided to move everything to Mexico.

Each day I would check to see if any purchase orders needed to be entered, expedited, or closed out.  Processed incoming and outgoing correspondence and mail.  Provided general services and assistance to staff.  Got along very well with all co-workers.  The hardest part of the job was saying good-bye after so many wonderful years.

Great place to learn a lot quickly. 
Individual Contributor culture is very positive. 
Middle management is pleasant to work with. 
Hardest part of the job is out of date dysfunctional processes and systems. 
Most enjoyable part of the job is the flexibility of hours. 

work days are not so stressful, with enough work so the day doesn't drag on.  Learned a bunch about reed switches and how to work as a team to complete a task.  The management would be better with out the micromanagement from above their heads.

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