Potential not yet unlocked - Operations Manager BAE Systems Employee Review

3.0
Nov 10, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Possible to maintain a good work-life balance. Decent salaries. A lot of very good customer facing colleagues. Meaningful work. Potential. New MD shows promise.

Cons

Very hard to see how this business can ever thrive under the BAE Systems culture which is an entirely wrong fit. More of a focus on numbers than people. In the difficult middle - too old and too big to be a cool tech start up, too small to make a real dent against the services and tech giants. General muddle - inability to sort anything properly out, like internal IT. Slow or no career development - the culture has in-built mechanisms such as rigid structures and annual reviews to keep people where they are and there is a lack of provision of L&D generally.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

This company fires employees based on their ethnicity, religion, and skin color, in order to replace them with DEI hires to please diversity quotas. Even if the employee is exemplary. Managers here will lie to you and create no-win scenarios for these undesirable employees so they can have excuses to fire them besides blatant discrimination. If you speak out against this treatment, they will find legal ways to punish you and make sure you cannot work again the job field, or even hope to be able to live a normal life. It's clear in their holiday messages that they discriminate against Christians. If you working for them on a contract to hire position, they will enter verbal agreements with you, informing you multiple times that you get the full-time hire, but then pretend like it never happened.

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