Pros
I've been here less than a year, but so far I've been very impressed. I work with great people in a company that is doing well and is actively expanding and working to improve every day. The compensation is good. It's not FANG level, but you also don't need to live in California or New York. The benefits are good and company policies are very reasonable. I think the approach of management isn't to ask "How much can we squeeze from employees before they quit?", but rather they ask "What policies, compensation, and culture do we need in order to get good people to want to spend their carriers here?" For the most part, the company works on newer technologies. Sometimes I wonder if we're even using the newest thing just because it's new rather than because it's the best tool, but you won't be stuck unable to learn new things unless you just don't care to try. I'm usually working remote, but the facilities are nice. They provide good, up-to-date equipment. It's not a sweat shop, but do keep in mind that it's a global 24/7/365 operation. Depending on where you're working you might have to take some pager duty and be ready to support the local night shift or a project on the other side of the globe at 2AM on a Saturday. It's a strange sounding "pro", but it's kind of cool how much we're doing. I'd never heard of Samtec before coming here, but we're everywhere. Anything you rely on with electronics in it, we either built the parts or we built the parts used to build the parts. We're in the car you drive, the charger you plug your phone into, the computer you're sitting at, the satellites flying overhead, and the machine that goes "ping!" at the doctor's office.
Cons
The team I'm on was under-resourced for a while and has some technical debt. Truth be told, we're probably still under-resourced and it can be frustrating how much time is spent tracking down issues and supporting users instead of building new things that we dearly need. It's a huge, global operation and support or troubleshooting may be needed any time of any day. It can be a bit high pressure if something is blowing up because your team might be the broken cog in a machine that makes millions of dollars a day. A lot of pay is tied into the bonus structure. In most years that's a very good thing. I suspect this year we're headed into a recession and the bonus pay may not look so great.