A good starting point - Anonymous employee General Atomics Employee Review

3.0
Nov 11, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I worked at GA in various roles for about 3 years. Great people to work with, interesting products, pretty casual work environment (depending on what location you are at), decent benefits, optional work days during the holidays.

Cons

Not a lot of direction for new hires, work was not very challenging/became routine quickly once you got the hang of it, no career advancement, compensation is not very competitive, hard to get promoted

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Pros

Good working environment Exciting projects Great coworkers (for the most part, like any place)

Cons

Like any maturing company, it has become more and more top-heavy, placing more and more emphasis on project management and milestones, sometimes over bread-and-butter engineering. I could have half the PMs I have now and do a better job

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