TMW Systems

"This is still a software company with an "old boy" mentality. Women are making inroads, but it is slow. Women with experience with the company and industry are not sought out for input into decisions and it is hard to make people listen when decisions are not based on the customer base at times. There are some managers who will follow policy without thought of the employee or the issues being handled by women that could affect their work/life balance."

"The old-boy leadership team doesn't like women with strong views, esp. those who speak their minds and are brave enough to contradict them. We've had 500+ employees for over 10 years. In that time, they've only had 4 women VPs. One was very capable, but was demoted in less than two years when a new GM came in; she left. One is VP of HR, who became a crony and protects the male leadership's bad behavior. One was promoted to VP from Director last year, but they never hired a new Director to replace her, so she's doing both jobs. The fourth was promoted a couple of weeks ago by the new president, who was appointed recently by Trimble (our parent company) to replace the old president who died in April. The new guy seems to be a great person and is really pushing for diversity, so maybe things will change. But he needs to oust the old-boy crony network for that to happen."