BAE Systems Graduate Support Engineer reviews

4.2

72% would recommend to a friend

(33 total reviews)
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Charles Woodburn

73% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Graduate Support Engineer employees have rated BAE Systems with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 33 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Graduate Support Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. BAE Systems is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Graduate Support Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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33 reviews
3.0
Feb 21, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Good coworkers and work life balance

Cons

Terrible, terrible management. Lots of infighting between departments. Lots of inefficiencies that should’ve been fixed years ago.

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BAE Systems Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback on working at AI. It’s great to know you feel you have a good work life balance and we agree our people are our greatest strength. While it's disappointing to hear some of your comments, we appreciate all of the feedback we receive, and will ensure our leadership team is made aware of it. Thanks again.
3.0
Dec 16, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Working on technically challenging problems, which have genuine value to the world, with a lot of smart people. Nice "campus" offices, in a green area. Great for cycling to work, for example.

Cons

Soon after the 2014 rebrand to "Applied Intelligence", there was a major wave of resignations - including the former CEO. The company culture shifted to "align" with BAE - which basically meant cutting lots of perks. The graduate recruitment salary also dropped by £1000-3000, so pay rises for my "generation" were slashed to help bridge the gap. The company also introduced a "5 point" annual appraisal system, where all employees are ranked on a bell curve - which lead to highly biased results, where managers ranked their closest colleagues highly, and were therefore *forced* to rank others lower, regardless of actual performance. Hopefully things have improved under new management now; I don't know.

3.0
May 28, 2017

sufficient

Recommend
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Pros

good starting job for graduates, good learning curve at the start and good starting pay as overall. good perks but not long lasting

Cons

slow learning curve after awhile, people tend to get repetitive jobs and roles after a few years. pay is dependent on which team you are posted to

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