Sad to see Santa Clara Site downsize - Senior Quality Engineer BAE Systems USA Employee Review

5.0
Dec 4, 2010
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Pros

Great mentoring by older employees. Exciting work and opportunities to learn new technologies. People generally care about oneanother. It was great to know that what I did helped protect our guys and gals in uniform.

Cons

Benefits are getting worse, this year only one medical provider and next year 2011 only one plan, one provider. Everything going up in cost. No more pension plan for new hires. Management wants to move site to Mich. no matter what. New engineers from auto industry (Ford) do not understand the government or armored vehicles. All experienced workers are retireing or leaving. The customer (our troops) will suffer the most.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Pros

Flexibility in work The few remaining coworkers from the Ball days are great Can bank 400 hours of PTO

Cons

Since the transition from ball to bae, the company has decided to try and make life as unhappy as possible. They removed 2 weeks from our short term disability leave (was 6weeks for giving birth) They got rid of our sick time and made it all PTO and that transition caused us to lose time off in total Refuse to promote despite the levels changing and years of experience needed being lowered. They have capped the number of promotions a year then tell us that isn’t true and then refuse to do promotions that are desperately needed. Instead of promoting or giving decent raises they lose great people and constantly have to hire from outside for more than it probably cost to just promote. They started searching our bags? Random bag checks were just implemented. Getting anything approved is impossible (especially technology or training) Attrition is getting out of hand but all hands say everything is great despite everyone asking what they will do to help keep talent Pay is not keeping up and if you are an overachiever you will never be paid for that effort

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