Great job- with times - Anonymous employee United Airlines Employee Review

5.0
Nov 14, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Being a flight attendant is a wonderful job once you have some seniority, Reserve is not a cake walk and in order for you to be successful, you must be ready for the challenges it presents. Some realistic challenge include but are not limited to: six weeks of unpaid training, relocating to some of the most expensive cities in the country, and reserve- having no control over you schedule.

Cons

In order to be successful you MUST live in the city where you are based. I do not understand why flight attendants commute- especially new flight attendants. Not only are new flight attendants The company does not encourage it, What other job do you not have to live where you work?? If you are going into this with the hopes to commute, reconsider.

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United is genuinely a good place to work in a lot of ways. The dev side has strong leadership, the work is interesting, and there are real engineers doing real things. When I started, I was proud to tell people where I worked.

Cons

The Quality Engineering org has gone downhill fast since the leadership change about two years ago. It's hard to overstate how much the culture has shifted. The focus now is almost entirely on offshoring roles to India, and the US team has been quietly squeezed—people being nudged toward retirement, others suddenly finding themselves with negative performance feedback after years of solid work. It doesn't feel issue-driven, it feels like a headcount strategy with a polite cover story. On top of that, we spent most of last year implementing process changes that look impressive in a slide deck but don't actually move the needle. Meanwhile, the QE org has drifted away from what the dev leadership is actually trying to build. We're solving problems no one asked us to solve while the real priorities sit on the side. It's frustrating to watch, especially when you know what this team used to be capable of. The day-to-day environment has gotten noticeably toxic. People are checked out, the good ones are looking, and there's a real sense that institutional knowledge is being treated as disposable.

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