Validation Engineer - Project Manager CAI Employee Review

1.0
21 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits are on par to other companies.

Cons

100% travel, not family friendly, not women friendly, clash of cultures between Navy personnel and civilians, impossible to schedule any sort of appointment due to travel, often project placements do not correspond with skill/education at all, no guidance provided if assignment is not within your skill set, no appropriate notice about change of sites, travel does not count towards work hours even if it takes 10 hours to get to site, a number of terrible managers who will drive you to leave the company, turnover rate is rather high.

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5.0
13 Feb 2026
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Pros

Great company for experience in life science and mission critical environments

Cons

Lots of traveling with short notice.

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4.0
22 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Time and a half OT - There used to be an amazing 401k (15%+ESOP), that’s just been axed thanks to private equity buying us out - Good colleagues - Willing to train people - Good pay if you’re working OT and live in a cheap area

Cons

- Overtime far from guaranteed. Sometimes you’re scrapping to hit 40 hours. - Pay sucks in expensive areas - Project assignment is mostly luck of the draw? They need to be a copy-paste monkey? You’re a copy-paste monkey until the end of days. - Company did a lot of things to increase enterprise value in the short term in preparation for the buyout from private equity - Company repeatedly shorts people on raises and promotions and works to muddy the water on payscales and promotions.The middle has hollowed out because of lack of raise/promotions. People get 3 years and then bail. - Travel can be super heavy and last minute - Company far more bureaucratic than it needs to be

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