Toxic Culture and Horrid Pay - Exhaust Department L3Harris Employee Review

1.0
Feb 3, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Overtime is readily available weekly.

Cons

Base pay starts at $34k per year, though they expect years of experience or a bachelor's degree. If security holds you up at the gate for 5mins or card reader goes down (happens often) you will be written up with no exceptions. You're expected to do overtime and if you can't due to family plans they will hold it against you. Management expects $30 per hour work and mentality for $16 an hour. 40 cent per hour yearly raises. If you call in sick one day they will write you up and hold it against you in performance reviews months later. They threaten with termination over the smallest issues that should be teachable moments and provide no actual instruction or help. All work is shared by different shifts but if you're the last person to touch a product, you get dinged if it's damaged. Even if it was damaged before you touched it, it doesn't matter, and they only write up the final person since they can't confirm who actually did it. Leading people to purposely mistime the final step near the end of their shift so the incoming shift gets bombarded and blamed for any issues. This did not change after several years and many complaints.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

Missions are impactful to the world Top talent in specialized fields Wonderful people Respectful environment

Cons

Processes and policies are not robust enough to support the large growth / merger, which leaves everyone operating in silos and interpreting things in their own ways Shared service model is not structured properly Not enough critical thinking around how budgets should be allocated for tools, capital, and salaries Higher level leaders are too in the weeds and not working on the harder strategic aspects Businesses are not aligned with common products to gain best synergies as all businesses fight to defend $s not what actually makes sense for the company (radios sharing same suppliers are in completely different segments; CCAs are built across 10+ different factories managed by different management teams instead of a couple of large COEs) All leaders felt unempowered due to lack of ownership of budgets. Budgets were set but then adjusted at further levels without any additional discussion of new targets and how to achieve. Then budgets would be reallocated a few months into year if you weren't demonstrating that you truly need it. This drove teams to spend heavy up front and not make the smartest decisions at times

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