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A great job while WFH lasts - Engineering Specialist General Dynamics Electric Boat Employee Review

3.0
Apr 2, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Since the pandemic WFH has been available to some employees and it has greatly improved the flexibility of the work day. It's a large company, and they like to promote from within. Most likely your supervisor will have once had your job and will be sympathetic. The same is likely true for your manager (supervisor's boss). The work is interesting, you get the work with smart people and the pay is usually pretty good.

Cons

Horrible Parking - If you want to park on site you have to be there by 6am. Otherwise you would have to park in downtown New London and wait for a shuttle, it adds about half an hour to the daily commute. Repeated incidents of VPs capriciously creating bad policy - Suggested minimum overtime, core hours that force 9 hour days on anyone who comes in early enough to park on site, prohibition of working through lunch. Every couple years there will be a security scare and we won't be able to bring any electronic devices (phones) into the building. Too many people packed too tight into the building (see parking problems), most people sit in low-walled four-person cubicals. It's loud. Re the diversity and inclusion: a couple years ago I mentored a summer intern. For picking the intern they gave us a spreadsheet of all the applicants. One of the columns in the spreadsheet was if they had a parent working at EB, I was told to give them preferential treatment. While being able to get your kid an internship is a nice perk, giving preferential treatment to children of a disproportionately white workforce will results in a disproportionately white class of interns.

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5.0
Jul 4, 2026
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Pros

Nice work and life balance

Cons

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1.0
Jun 17, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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