Electromagnetic Systems is a mess - Systems Engineer I General Atomics Employee Review

1.0
Jul 1, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

-Company has a lot of smart people -They have their foot in the door on nuclear space contracts -Pension

Cons

-Bad pay -Only promote every 2 years -Recent lack of ability to get any big contracts -Recently laid off a lot of people without much consideration for whether these people were critical to contracts (they were) -Very few/poorly prepared employee engagement activities -No 9/80 (they are discussing it now finally) -No people my age (I am 26) -IT is almost completely unresponsive

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5.0
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Pros

Very good work life balance

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Lots of structure, tools and resources to do the job.

Cons

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