BAE Systems Graduate System engineer reviews

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.

Huge company so can be bloated and slow, graduate scheme for engineers seems to be unorganised and professional accreditation is generally ignored. Path to move upwards is not clear