CAE reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,810 total reviews)
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Matthew Bromberg

52% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

CAE has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,810 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CAE 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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1.0
Dec 4, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

*The people at the technical level are awesome. *The products are very interesting and challenging.

Cons

*No respect for technical workers estimates and raised "red flags". *Impossible deadlines that everyone knows we won't make, then when the deadline arrives we don't hear anything of it and keep business as usual until its done. *They assume everyone technical is interchangeable, like a UI specialist can be transferred into flight models on a management whim,

2.0
Nov 19, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get paid well if you're willing to travel and work night shifts, perdiems got reinstated (after some of the best engineers left) and you're paid overtime. Colleagues are funny to be around and helpful (although depends on departments) but otherwise very friendly place to be and good engineers overall.

Cons

Management is very bad probably because most of them are salesmen and marketing, not many bright minds up there. They Recruit VPs with no aviation industry experience and that says a lot about the mentality. They are incapable of creating a new product or creating a new market for a new product that they invented; the only way for them to grow revenue is to cut salaries and benefits from employees. Since 2009 this company is going downhill and clients see that CAE simulators are worse and worse (quality wise) because the engineering talent is leaving (or left already) and hiring standards are becoming very low, so occasionally you'll meet some people that have no clue how to use a pointer in C. It's very sad because I remember where this company used to be 6 years ago and it's just downhill from here.

3.0
Nov 6, 2015

Best people, worst benefits

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's actually an environment that feels like family! Best people I have ever worked with. Everyone pitches in to get the job done! Very fun to be around pilots, planes and the culture of aviation.

Cons

Due to the nature of retired pilots now working at an older age the health insurance is outrageously expensive! Cannot work here if you want to start a family, have a family with children at home. Or, I suppose you must make good money as a manager to do so.

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