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Not For The Ambitious - Senior Software Engineer General Dynamics Mission Systems Employee Review

2.0
Aug 19, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Middle management and peers are one of the few reasons I continue to stay at GDC4S. A select few programs are interesting, the remaining are mind-numbing but pay the bills.

Cons

Upper level management is incompetent, continuing to keep their 'heads in the clouds'. No real long-term vision of what the company's core competencies are, what they wish to become, or a realistic viewpoint of why the company is 'bleeding talent' as ambitious individuals are constantly quitting, leaving the complacent workforce. There is no investment of R&D, training, or pursuits of technologies, they look only for cash cows and scratch their heads when large programs terminate and they have to cut staff. With 140 people in the entire building, I'd expect higher level managers to be on a first-name basis with employees, rather they couldn't pick most employees our of a line-up. The rigid Internet policies, legal department and woefully inadequate computing resources makes already difficult work nearly unbearable. Open reqs spanning months speaks for itself.

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Pros

Good pay and good benefits

Cons

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Pros

GD has lots of interesting projects to work on across multiple locations. If you want to make a career at GD, I don't think you would be bored because there is so much to work on. Work has been very stable over decades with no indication that that will change. Work life balance is also valued and generally very good outside of major project milestone deliveries.

Cons

Pay is competitive with defense industry but not private sector.

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