manufacturing engineer

quality engineer

design engineer

project engineer

mechanical engineer

Quest Global

I would like to point out that some of the reviews posted under QuEST Global are for other companies that have Quest in their company names.  A call center, a trucking company and a health care company.  None of these companies are affiliated with QuEST Global Engineering, so you need to weed them out in making your own assesment.

 Pros
QuEST Global Engineering is a relatively new yet solid internationally operated company founded about 16 years ago. It has experienced steady growth with it's business model of consulting and being an outsourced manufacturing engineering and related services provider with long term contracts to support major companies. The work atmosphere is generally relaxed and positive. The pay for my area at least seems to be comparable to national average based on the regional area of operations. The start and finish time of work day is flexible as long as a full day is put in and all needed tasks for the day are accomplished. Start of day could be from 7:30 am to 9 am. It is also possible for some to work four 10 hour shifts if they desire. The company is branching out into new areas of outsourced services for the manufacturing industry, and I think will continue to grow with many opportunities to advance and / or transfer to other locations. There are also opportunities to cross train and learn new skills. Salaried employees could earn over time for work over 80 hours in a 2 week pay period.

Cons
They don't currently apply the highest standard of break / lunch / HR polices equally to all offices in the USA. Currently it is by state law minimums per states operated in. Most large interstate companies apply the highest standards to all of their employees regardless of state minimums throughout their USA operations as the norm. The amount of vacation time is OK to begin with but not much more added as seniority grows. It seems that making bonus is nearly impossible so don't count on making it for income. There are some growing normal pains of a young company becoming more successful and even larger. This often means and leads to changes. If you are one to embrace change and be a positive change agent, this could lead to more opportunities. If you are looking for being more static in your career, this could be a huge con for you. The current benefits seem to be OK but could still be improved to be more competitive with the market. Tuition reimbursement is minimal, up to $2000 for a semester and only may be applied to one class per semester. Only 5 tuition reimbursements are given each semester, so even if you are eligible, if there is too much competition you may never receive any. You have to be on the job for more than a year before you can apply for a chance at some tuition reimbursement. Even though you can earn overtime as a salaried employee, it is dependent on actually working more than 80 hours in a 2 week pay period. Any other time off during the pay period such as vacation, sick leave or holiday pay does not count as "hours worked" for qualifying for over time pay. So if you take an hour off one day and work one day over another in the same pay period, no over time.

Advice to Management
Implement the highest level of break, lunch, and other HR employee policies equally with all the branches in the USA, not by state law minimums. This is a common company / corporate practice in the USA. Increase vacation time given for longer term employees, 10 yr, 15 yr, 20 yr ... This is a great investment in the future of the company and retention tool. Increase tuition reimbursement for your employees at least as to reimbursing more people that may qualify for it, again a great investment in the future of the company. Offer some other retirement savings options other than just 401K. Increase employee match on retirement savings accounts to 4% and make the funds vested to the employee after 10 years of service, another nice retention tool. If they leave earlier than that, they aren't vested in the match funds and lose them.  Change the over time policy so that any hours in a pay period over 80 regardless of paid time off taken is paid as over time.  Make more realistic bonus goals to reward your good performing employees.

QuEST Global Engineering is a relatively new yet solid internationally operated company founded about 16 years ago.  It has experienced steady growth with it's business model of consulting and being an outsourced manufacturing engineering and related services provider with long term contracts to support major companies.  The work atmosphere is generally relaxed and positive.  The pay is comparable to or slightly higher than national average based on the regional area of operations.  The start and finish time of work day is flexible as long as a full day is put in and all needed tasks for the day are accomplished.  Start of day could be from 7:30 am to 9 am.  It is also possible for some to work four 10 hour shifts if they desire.  The company is branching out into new areas of outsourced services for the manufacturing industry, and I think will continue to grow with many opportunities to advance and / or transfer to other locations. There are also opportunities to cross train and learn new skills.  A big con is that they need to apply the highest standard of break / lunch / HR polices equally to all offices in the USA.  Currently it is by state law minimums per states operated in.  Most large interstate companies apply the highest standards to all of their employees regardless of state minimums.  There seem to be several reviews on here that are not actually for QuEST Global Engineering, so I would make sure you weed those out when making your decision.  One seems to be a health care organization, one a call center and the other a trucking company, neither are part of QuEST Global Engineering.

QuEST global is a contracting company for manufacturing. Currently I work for Honeywell working on standard operation sheets. I help improve documents and methods to produce products to be made. A typical day for me is to create visual aids for the part being produced from a build I observe taking pictures. From the visual aids the instructions are to be made or adjusted accordingly for quality and safety. Finally check that all the parts are consumed and installed properly. I really enjoy learning how parts are assembled and built from nothing. I really learned more on the manufacturing process of products, which I find fascinating because how parts are produced. I learned that time, quality, and safety are extremely important in a work environment. The management in our office talks to the managers at Honeywell and gives the progress of our work. The hardest part about my job are the time critical jobs, when a full assembly is to be audited, Honeywell has Quest and an on site project engineer go through all instructions and make sure that all assemblies are correct from start to finish. When these are presented, the expected deadline is a couple weeks. An average assembly requires over 30 blueprints with 120 plus parts to go over and check. When errors are found, needs to be documented and fixed. I really enjoy the flexibility with my job. Currently I am finishing up my last semester at ASU and when I have a big project or test, my job allows me to adjust my schedule with school. I also like the friendly environment around me when I work.

There are so many issues with this company, where do I even start.
It was bad news from day 1.  After giving notice to my previous job, i arrived at Quest on my start date to find out I could not yet work... followed by a week of no pay while they finished paperwork that should have already been completed.
Then the first pay period comes and goes, with no check.  After multiple complaints to HR (in India, which also did not help with employee relations), I had not been given and answer, and reported the company to the labor board.  Only then did they fix the problem.
When I started, Quest did not offer benefits.  A few months into my employment they added benefits, and cut our hourly pay rates to make up for the new benefits... while hiring new employees at the previous rate, and giving them benefits.
As many other reviews have stated, the only way to get a promotion in this company is to be in a "click".  I have enever  experienced anything like this in a workplace, it was fashioned much as a high school hall corridor. Managment did not support, recognize, or apprecitate their employees.
The turnover rate was astronomical.  People accpeted jobs at Quest if they were deperate, and with no motivation to stay, they quikcly left the company.
As a hiring manager I will say that pay was extremely poor, I felt guilty offereing qualified candidates a job, knowing that they would soon be unhappy in their career and leave.
The only saving grace was the flexibility.  Since there was not much time off, you could at least make up hours if you needed a day or time off. I never had a problem arranging my schedule to fit with my life.

I am a Team Lead/Senior Engineer here. Though, since our customer provides very close direction on tasks and most projects are individual in nature this mainly means creating job proposals and managing budgets and manpower. The technical work on jet engines can be interesting but it depends on the specific project, it can also be very dull paperwork related stuff. I have found that the outsource engineering services business model is not something that I buy into for a number of reasons. Most of my coworkers are in their 20's, they are mostly enthusiastic and hardworking. Some people really seem to like working here and others cannot stand it. People that come in as entry level seem to like it, but those that have experience elsewhere, like me, seem to get disenchanted with the company. I do not respect my managers here, everyone is rather young and seems like they are leading from examples that they read in business literature rather than experience or ability. The hardest part of my job is dealing with QuEST company practices. The most enjoyable part is working with the engineers at Pratt and Whitney, they are all very smart and you learn a lot.

QuEST is a subcontracting engineering company. So by virtue of it's business some positions are inherently more interesting than others. If you are an Engineer working for an interesting client, you will have work more fitting of your position. Otherwise the work you do can be either filed as data entry or busy work. 

Since QuEST doesn't particularly discriminate between what degrees and experience a person has, you have have individuals who are not qualified for their jobs. An example is that for one project I had, my manager was an (offsite) Biology major with no formal management training. They were god awful at their job and this (I believe) can be directly tied to the aforementioned lack of picking appropriate talent for the needs of their projects.

Beyond that the pay is pretty mediocre for what you are typically tasked to do. Especially as an engineer. However, my facility had a pretty laid back environment with not a ton of micromanagement for how we went about our business.

Overall it's an alright experience, but don't expect the best. 

Employed as a contractor for UTC Aerospace Systems.  Job satisfaction is highly dependent on what program you land in.  Some programs are considered less desirable and are only for a short time while some programs keep you on indefinitely.  
Main goal (unless you're a retiree just earning some cash on the side) is to eventually get hired on by UTC but this depends on what the UTC managers think of you.

Quest itself tries to stay out of work for UTC but has increasingly over the last few years added more and more extraneous requirements that you have to meet so that they can deny you a top raise and only give you a partial bonus.  The bonus is also never given in full because the company has missed it's revenue target (management sets unrealistic goals to save a buck).

Basically, view this job as a stepping stone to gain some experience and move on to bigger and better things.

A great place to work with some very good young talent. Company is focused on managing by metrics with little regard to existing business conditions. Typically reactive in nature. No true effort to invest in the development of employees and future managers. In fact, even existing managers may benefit from development programs (my self included). There's a lot of focus on billable hours and much of the company's spend strategy is centered around that one metric, but that's to be expected of an outsourcing company. The company sets highly unrealistic growth targets which are never based on existing business conditions. No learning curve which is what will prevent them from achieving the growth they desire. The company also does not take non compliance as seriously as it should, if they dream to be publicly traded, compliance will be critical.

Could be so much more... Your employees are what make you great... With no investment in employee development, QuEST has forgotten that...

Managers are condescending, rude, and backstabbing. A couple attempted to set me up to get fired. I worked in the division that worked with contracts from GE. Our job was to kiss GE's rear. We couldn't act laid back to the customer. If we had a question we had to go through the project manager and sometimes they would just ignore your request. Which resulted in delays and budget overruns. A very confrontational environment. This impacted my health in the long run. Wanted to get out, but it took me a while to find a job that fit me well. I would rather stock shelves during the midnight shift than come back and work for these losers. We had a high attrition rate and the CEO came in for a town hall meeting. One person asked what was going to done to prevent more people from leaving and the fool said that if people here aren't happy, then they can leave. WHAT!!!, how can a CEO say that? Clearly he doesn't care. This company is proving a job and not a career. So, if you don't care if you are treated with disrespect and are looking for a short term job fill then take a gamble.

Employee of 5 years. I relocated my desk 5 times in 2 years, never got a place to call my own. Deadlines are based on Billable Hour and not what can actually be accomplished in a normal work schedule. Overworked, underpaid. Vacation is terrible, I needed to be there 5 years to get the basic 2 weeks paid. Up until then they give PTO at state LAW minimum. Paid time off is also lumped into sick time, so they can get away with that too. Very unhappy with upper management, they seem deaf to the needs of the employees and all they care about are metrics. Executive leadership is always hired externally, no one internally (from what ive seen) have been promoted into the ranks that can create a sustainable work environment. No one is there when you need them, and HR is never on your side. To be honest, I feel like I have wasted 5 years of my life thinking things would get better, but they have not. I need to move on with my life, onto better things. Need to join a company that actually cares about their employees needs instead of trying to milk them completely dry for the skillsets they posses.

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