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Interesting Product, Poor Management - Engineering Specialist General Dynamics Electric Boat Employee Review

2.0
Aug 26, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Electric Boat produces a unique product that takes years to develop and years to build, this can be rewarding if you find the niche you are interested in. There are many opportunities from design, engineering, and construction. Advocate for yourself to get into a position that interests you and you'll enjoy the work. 401k investment opportunities along with being 100% vested from day one is excellent (probably next on list to be cut)

Cons

Upper management is top heavy and considers employees expendable. Current business climate is excellent with large long term contracts, and high corporate profits, yet employee benefits are being cut. Raises have been significantly reduced in the last year, tuition reimbursement cut, and sick time reduced. All of these items are being done to increase overall corporate profit. Parking is difficult, plan on wasting time riding a bus or parking far away unless you arrive at work by 6am. Work processes are often cumbersome, slow, and frustrating. Support to improve these processes is often non-existent. Upper management needs to focus on fixing the significant issues which could lead to meaningful improvements in lieu of micro managing issues which have little bearing on the bottom line. As with any company there are people who underperformers and add little value. Management does little to correct this behavior.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Pros

This is a last resort job if you can’t find anything else

Cons

The processes and systems in place to get the job done is dismal. There is no official training for the job role. If you make suggestions and try to be helpful you are seen as a threat by management. There is rarely any cross functional communication. It feels like they want things to take a long time and be wrong so that they can charge the govt. more money. (Bc every task you do will have a charge number). Most long timers at the company don’t care about the work being done inefficiently either, bc they have a reason for overtime. Very weird corporate politics / favoritism. (I have never seen it as bad as it is here). Parking is terrible at every location.

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