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Engineer Review after 1.5 Years - Electrical Engineer II General Dynamics Electric Boat Employee Review

2.0
Jun 14, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Interesting product - Some work has meaning - Overall importance to the nation's defense - New London facility is nice - Lots of younger generation - Seeing submarines coming back or leaving - Looks great on a resume

Cons

- Pay raise is mediocre, the average is 2.5-3%, I was told I am above average with a mere 0.2%. I expected to be compensated more due to my devotion for both quality and timeliness - Work culture is awful, constantly overworked, stressed, and fear management for not meeting numbers so they can get their monthly incentive checks - Insanely hard to get fired, there are people within my own department who constantly miss deadlines, produce terrible work, and overall terrible to work with yet they face no repercussions. If it was anyone else we'd be crucified. - Not much diversity for the older generation, lots of racist, bigoted, and close-minded white men who do nothing but talk about how they hate the younger generation or yell at you for not doing something their way - Work is incredibly easy, the most difficult part about the job is multitasking and time management, if you have a brain you'll do fine - Attrition rate is very high - Education assistance or professional development is non-existent or mediocre at best - They don't season the food in the cafeteria, and its something as simple as salt - Very "cliquey" its like highschool all over again - Parking is atrocious, get here by 6-6:30AM to get a spot - Expected hours is 45+, but you only get paid for 40. And oh yeah since you get paid for each full HOUR after 45, you really need to do 46 to get paid 1 hour of OT - Working with the Design groups can be incredibly frustrating due to the lack of quality Design produces. I often have to review things 4-5 times before it is satisfactory - No accountability, everyone points fingers to push the blame on someone else If you're new here or planning on working here, get a few years and leave. Its not worth the time and bs you have to go through

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Pros

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Cons

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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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