Pluspunten
The pro's are really starting to diminish ... 4 years ago I would have made a lot more positive comments. - Location is handy if you live in/around OC - Opportunities exist for those that can subscribe to work with no real strategy - Pay's very well, has good benefits - Previously were very good at recognizing potential and offered opportunities - Easy to shine given some of the ineptitude inherit in the ranks
Minpunten
Sadly, this company is going the way of the dinosaurs ... not via lack of evolution but more the meteorite of baffling new executive management. On the heels of the FCPA/DoJ backlash and the departure of every single executive - this should have been a time to invigorate the company, the strategy and the future business landscape. Instead, the inept CEO/COO hired in a convey belt of 'idealists' with no cohesion and vision of how they will 'reboot' PAC. The biggest turning point was losing Paul Margis; many will argue if he was a good CEO but one thing he was, the drive of innovation and technology that inspired so many first in the IFE and now IFEC world. I cannot state this enough, there is ZERO real innovation in PAC now and in fact he company is regressing. It's convoluted future strategy hinges on 'services' and 'cloud' ... both areas that others have mastered, already doing way better than PAC and PAC has no real experience, background or appetite. Massive investment via the new CTO in 'cloud' but with the methodology and mindset of technology companies from 5-7 years ago 'everything to the cloud'. Problem is, no-one knows what they are going to do with the data once it is in the cloud and how it will drive Panasonic Avionics business in the future. Even this strategy is being done in a vacuum and lacks any cooperation through the existing teams and knowledge base that build the company and had it a successful as it has been. It's future was being constructed on connectivity and its fair to say PAC has struggled in this space but no worse than any other vendor in this space. Given the announcement last week with PAC partnering with Inmarsat for future connectivity, it gives another clear signal on how it is putting an arms length between being a IFEC provider and instead becoming an integrator. Once again, another nail in their coffin of innovation and being the company that leads the field in IFEC innovation. The current leadership has no experience in IFEC and are selectively losing it's best assets because of its confusing strategy ... or lack of. The best of PAC is leaving PAC because it can, what is being left are the dregs that cannot find work elsewhere and succeed and a set of new executives that are all starting to empire build around a none existence future strategy riding this meteorite into earth. To see this once great IFE leader stare at the sky at the screaming fireball about to hit is is disheartening but inevitable. I hope I am wrong but if you are looking for your next career move, not a job, this is not the company for you. It's place in the market and its stature was all build on a foundation that is all but eroding.