BAE Systems USA reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(3,613 total reviews)
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Tom Arseneault

76% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

BAE Systems USA has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,613 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BAE Systems USA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Aug 1, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Work-life balance is nice. Majority of engineering and office staff works 9/80s. Benefits are decent.

Cons

If you are a self-starter looking to advance in a workplace. This is NOT a recommended job. Management has a major disconnect from the rest of the site. They will rarely even acknowledge your existence let alone interact with you. No matter how hard you work... Work ethic is destroyed here as you will receive the same respect and recognition as your coworker who puts in little to no effort each day. If anything, it will likely kickoff an uneven work distribution where you're carrying twice the workload as the 'Sr. Principal Engineer' making double your salary while playing on their phone each day. The salaries are subpar, ~10% less than competing tech companies in the area. Annual merit increases are 2.5%-3% each year. Promotions happen at standard rates every 4 years or so. Being a good employee with a powerful skillset and initiative makes no difference here. If you're looking for an easy paycheck where you can get by doing the bare minimum. This is your dream job.

1.0
Feb 16, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

When I started, people treated each other as a family.

Cons

New management expects everyone to work twice as many hours on the promise that "someday things will return to normal", without any respect to the employee's time or life. Employer routinely lies to the customer, subcontractors, and employees. Management has created a toxic work environment with no incentive to work hard, but maintains power by being extremely retaliatory. Tis mindset led to some extremely short term gains, but eventually pushed out nearly all of the new talent in the software department for various reasons. Any new hire will be entering an impossible to succeed situation, with no ability or incentive to turn things around.

2.0
Jul 2, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get a paycheck? Functional and technical managers are pretty awesome in general.

Cons

If you're a woman, prepare to be offered less. I tried to negotiate a higher salary (by $5k) at the end of my internship and was told flat out, "No, this is all we're authorized to offer." Two male friends had been offered $10k more than I had--they warned me that they'd heard pay was unfair, and they wanted me to know what BAE was prepared to give them. That $10k was before they negotiated, too.

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BAE Systems USA Response
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Thank you for your feedback. BAE Systems, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and conducts regular compensation analyses to help ensure employees are paid fairly.
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