Pluspunten
Excellent training, decent benefits, a ton of variety in work. When I worked there, I had a lot of autonomy. When a new project came in, they would ask me how much time I needed to complete it, and would only be held accountable to the time I said I could do it in. Also, management would usually defer to the expertise of the employees. We would be handed a project or job by the management, and put in our own parts and labor estimates. If it was profitable and competitive, they would give it to the customer If not, they'd sit down with you and work the numbers until it was. I had great admiration and respect for the manager and assistant manager at that office. Probably the best managers I've ever worked with.
Minpunten
The pay was frustrating. Everyone's salary was a secret. I found out that another, less productive employee made $3 more than me, so I approached management. They raised my wage even higher than I asked for. Right before I left, I found out that a long-time technician I worked with occasionally made even less than I had originally. the other thing was that 90% of the work was with government agencies, but somehow, didn't qualify for prevailing wage labor unless the agency specified that it did. But by state law labor carried out for the government , outside of maintenance work, should be considered prevailing wage, or if federal, covered under the Davis Bacon Act. We were told that our benefits put us over the wage threshold for prevailing wage, but everywhere else I worked, prevailing wage was prevailing wage. If they just paid prevailing wage all the time, I'd probably still work there.