mechanical engineer

electrical engineer

structural engineer

project manager

senior electrical engineer

SSOE Group

I keep seeing responses from SSOE to reviews, touting "we were named 'A Great Place to Work'". I have one of those T-shirts myself, from my stint at SSOE. 

You know how you get named 'A Great Place to Work' ? You pay the company. Then, they will sell you 'Great Place to Work' T-shirts, for a nominal fee. 

From www.shiftbase.com:
"The Great Place to Work certification cost depends on the size of your organization. For organizations with 50-999 employees, the cost is $995 per year. For organizations with 1000+ employees, the cost is $1,495 per year. "

This is not a 'Great Place to Work'. It's an AVERAGE place to work. No one who is not literally paid by the company, for thier time online to post a positive review -- would rate this place 5 Stars. 3-4 stars for the right person -- but  SSOE just doesn't pay that well; It's a turn and burn company -- and has been since the 1970's.  The reviewer that noted "company announces layoffs by name via email" is not laying ...and that's messed up. The company seems more worried about diversity, than improving the 'product'.

Pay & benefits
My pay and benefits at SSOE Inc. - no comment.....

Job security and advancement
In terms of job security at SSOE Inc., There is NO JOB SECURITY!

Management
In general, managers at SSOE Inc. - My Manager, unfortunately didn't care about what was happening to me, when she wasn't there, by being bullied by a co-worker. She made it VERY clear that I was the issue. Hence why I'm unemployed - and the bully is still working there. SEVERAL others know it's true also!!!

Overall
My experience working at SSOE Inc. I was extremely disappointed! I loved it at first, but eventually when I kept asking for help with the bully situation, it seemed that I became bothersome to my Manager as "the bully" had been working there a little while before I was hired, and they had developed a friendship. So it had appeared her job was VERY secure, as she's still working there and I'm not.

Very productive working environment where you are faced with a variety of projects to work on, while interacting with different customers. With several offices across the US and overseas, you will work along with engineers and designers remotely, via your computer or phone. They do provide a number of programs that make the information sharing considerably simpler.

Management varies by office/expertise/projects. Most managers were very capable. As is often the case, the best ones were very good at communicating. 

The hardest part of the job is interacting with your co-workers remotely. Even though the technology is there to lessen the impact of the distance between project team members, the fact that you can't walk over to the next office to meet with a fellow team member is hard to deal with.

I worked for SSOE for several years and in that time frame I traveled to China to train staff in the Shanghai office. Two years of traveling and training staff in Shanghai my returned to my structural department and was laid off because the department manager was threatened I was progressing out of his department and had a chance to move on to bigger and better things then him.  Department manager would take credit for everything positive for the department but quickly threw you under the bus if in didn't make him look better. 

The travel was amazing and the chance to live overseas was outstanding.  

When you think you will retire form a company and have a future don't look at SSOE.  Your very underpaid and it is a sweatshop.

What company would think that announcing "weekly staff layoffs" in detail, name-by-name would be a good idea? This one. First 4-5 months on the job were nerve-racking to say the least. 

This is not a company that manages staff levels well -- you will either be very busy, or very laid off -- unless you are a good politician, or develop a really good rapport with your Dept. Mgr. 

The company has a "culture initiative" that is moderately creepy, but will keep you amused. The 4-interlocking gears logo will give anyone with any experience working with sprockets or gears a good chuckle.

A typical day for me is to start by reviewing the end user tickets that came in since I left the previous day and begin to work on them. Followed by preparing machines and software for users as needed and repairing machines when we have time. If there happens to be a short I spend the time running diangostic scans, writing scripts, or benchmarking systems.
The best part of the job is without a doubt my co-workers in my department. We watch out for each other and do what we can to make everything work as seemless as possible.
The hardest part of the job is the lack of communication from one department to the next. As such, the ball is often dropped and we do not find out so and so needs a specific set up unti hours before they are suppose to use it.

I recently was excited to except a position at SSOE group. Come to find out they need some help in their training of new employees. A lot of outdated handbooks and the inability to access proper documents to get your job done is exhausting. I hope that they could find a better way to train new hires so we could feel Comfortable in our positions before leaving us to wing it all by ourselves. Other than that I think they would be a great company to work for I am sure there is plenty of room for advancement as they are always talking numbers. I wish this place would’ve been a great fit for me but, unfortunately they are too unorganized at the moment to train properly.

A typical day for me consisted of helping multiple project managers at a time running their reports day to day. I learned quite a bit of valuable skills to carry on with me to future positions. Mainly regarding project controlling and management, as well as computer related skills like using Excel at a high level. I felt like I didn't really have a specific manager other than having our quarterly one on ones, considering I was helping multiple managers at a time. The hardest part of the job for me was feeling like just a cog in the machine. There was no seeing anything coming to completion, doing the same data entry work every day. The best part of this was, they gave me the opportunity to work from home when i needed to.

This is a really great company to work for. Great environment and positive attitudes.

Work load was extremely heavily and busy when I first started. We was very productive and team was thriving.

Things have slowed down a lot for the last 1.5 years. There have been many lay offs.

Job Task:
-Currently working in the telecommunication division analyzing and designing modifications for
existing cellular towers.
-Completed structural analysis for antenna and rooftop mounting frames.
-Completed site inspections.
-Design, draft and revised building plans and platform framing.
-Efficiently manage client relationships.

I worked with this company for a few months this year . My health suffered greatly, so I quit.  My manager was new to management and failed miserably when it came to training.  Would put the training onto other team members. Managers were slow to make hiring decisions, thus impacting the team and projects. You're blamed for when things go wrong and overlooked when they go right. They pay engineers and designers under market compared to their competitors.  You won't move up the ladder here. They will brag about their accolades in the media or industry to try and bring you into their world. 

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