Do Not Work Here If You Are An Analog or Power Supply Design Engineer - Senior Engineering Specialist QSC Employee Review

Appearances can be deceiving at QSC. This is a digital software and firmware culture. It is not a quality engineering culture. Digital hardware people are treated as second class citizens. Analog and power supply hardware people are treated as third class citizens. The digital culture has erased any elements of an analog culture that used to exist. Audio power amplifier products look more like low cost, overstressed, computer motherboards than real audio products. Product development is driven by extreme product cost and space constraints. From an analog circuit, reliability, EMI and noise managment perspective, product design quality is poor. Power amplifier and power supply hardware is grossly over-stressed, by almost any metric you can devise. KISS is not part of the QSC engineering culture. Product design is overly complex. There is too much reliance on overly complex, Windows application, data management and CAD software. Data management is scattered helter-skelter on the cloud, resulting in choatic data management and configuration control of any database created by engineering. Subjective audio quality often takes a back seat to a digital signal processing perspective and a scientific fundamentalist outlook.