Not an inspiring place to work...no stability or security. - Manager United Airlines Employee Review

2.0
Jun 25, 2008
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Pros

Flight benefits are good, although almost impossible to fly standby on full flights these days. It's an interesting industry. Some of the people in the ranks at United are good to work with.

Cons

Where to begin? No stability. No job security. Limited chance for promotion. It's a tough industry and a tough time right now, but United does a far worse job of taking care of its employees than other airlines (Southwest, Continental). This unfortunately has translated into a cancerous mistrust by labor of Sr. Management.

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5.0
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Pros

Flying benefits Great community of people Very diversed Cares about it’s people

Cons

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3.0
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Pros

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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