If you are not English, do not go there. Perfect place just before retirement. - Mechanical Engineer BAE Systems Employee Review

1.0
Jun 6, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

If you work in electronics it might be interesting. It may be a good experience in general as a first job for 1 or 2 years maximum. Perfect very quiet workplace to go for a few years before retirement as the salary could be good. You can find good and honest people, but they are the exception.

Cons

Discrimination against non-English personnel and whoever does not fit with the particular culture, with Ethics, HR and Union protection which are basically non-existent. A not negligible amount of people are completely unreasonable and cannot hold a technical discussion. This includes Management and Senior Management. There is a constant theatrical act to show how much work there is, with vacancies constantly advertised year around. The reality is that many people sit at the desk doing personal activities, like watching a movie with a 43 inch HD TV, play tetris, read a book. The Union is aware of it and tries to oppose to new hiring but does not have any power. The only way to progress in career is to work there for 15-20 years waiting for people to retire. They promised me a very interesting job at the interview, but it is was the worst work experience (technically and socially) within my 8+ years long career.

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Cons

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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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