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      3.1

      36% would recommend to a friend

      (88 total reviews)

      Louis H. Knotts

      63% approve of CEO

      43% positive business outlook

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      Calspan has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 88 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Calspan 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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      88 reviews
      2.0
      Sep 9, 2024

      Every week was chaotic

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Amazing people. - Good PTO policy. - Tasks were satisfying and made an impact. - If you did well, you were rewarded and promoted.

      Cons

      - Terrible, terrible work-life balance. 50-60 hour work weeks were regular, schedule was almost never predictable. Coming in on Saturdays were normal during busier seasons - Highly stressful work environment. Company was more interested in finding scapegoats over solutions when something went wrong. - Heavy micro-management. Old school management mentality. - Consistently understaffed. - Little focus on quality/process improvement from management, only making ends meet. - zero retention rate as no one wants to stay here.

      1.0
      Aug 15, 2024

      Fall From Grace Over the Last 4 Years

      Senior mechanical engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Coworkers and middle management are all great to work with. Somehow the 9/80 work schedule persists.

      Cons

      This company (Calspan JETS) is half of what used to be AeroSystems Engineering (with the wind tunnel half of the business being sold to Cerberus in 2024). ASE was bought by Calspan in 2020 and then Calspan was bought by Transdigm in 2023. In 2020, the small business atmosphere was replaced by corporate BS, and then in 2023 it was further degraded by now being a subsidiary of a small portion of a publicly traded conglomerate. Calspan was historically a testing services provider and seems to not care that (what is now) Calspan JETS is essentially a design firm. First Calspan rushed all of us from 100% remote to 100% in-office back in 2021; then they implemented the most ass-backwards hybrid scheduling imaginable starting in 2022; now (2024) they are forcing us back to 100% in-office instead of simply fixing the hybrid scheduling. This is being done in the name of “collaboration”, but that’s not an issue here at all!

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