It is broken - let's fix it. - Senior Electrical Engineer Leonardo DRS Employee Review

1.0
Dec 21, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

DRS has had great customers, a highly talented workforce and has produced a fantastic and wide variety of high technology solutions and services. Excellent locations around the country.

Cons

Within the last 3 years DRS has managed to systematically disregard and alienate their customer base, confound most of their vendors and decompose any semblance of functionality in the operations groups. People are running for the exits. The best have mostly left already. Zero business development sense. All systems stop.

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5.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Well managed all around. Used to be a really good place to work, but since they went public, it's just a good place to work.

Cons

Defence industry, typical feast or famine. Either working over time to tight schedules or nothing to do.

2.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The only Pro with this company was having every other Friday off.

Cons

Poor leadership and management culture. In my experience, management positions are often filled from a small, long-tenured group, resulting in limited diversity of thought and few opportunities for outside perspectives. Many leaders lacked the skills needed to effectively develop, mentor, and support their teams. Rather than addressing organizational issues, accountability often seemed to flow downward, with lower-level employees bearing the consequences of management decisions. I also observed talented Program Managers leaving or being terminated under circumstances that suggested they were being held responsible for broader organizational problems rather than receiving appropriate leadership support. Overall, the culture discouraged transparency, accountability, and professional growth.

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