BAE Systems reviews

General - bureaucratic nature due to military/legacy contracts, upper management resistant to real, modern change, in-house IT apps are tailormade to hinder your job. Air sector - no apparent career progression line or support as technical/SME, lack of effort to retain talent, constant re-organisation (high instability, confusion, lack of transparency, wishy-washy vision from senior leadership with little to no benefit), strictly do not allow working from home unless exec grade, beady-eyed monitoring of absences, management get twitchy and process-heavy over flexible working arrangement requests, senior/exec roles are generally not advertised but via taps on shoulders and who knows who, management can be rigidly process-driven without discretion (constant mantra to follow the company policy but do not know the process themselves). Marine sector - pay rises difficult to negotiate, work can be repetitive in software dev.

Obsolescence and redundancy was inevitable for someone with my limited and out of date skills.