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3.2

51% would recommend to a friend

(143 total reviews)

Jason Kim

49% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Firefly Aerospace has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 143 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Firefly Aerospace employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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143 reviews
4.0
Mar 12, 2020

poor Management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place to grow up

Cons

job is not secure as the management is bad

5.0
Feb 22, 2020

Exciting and Fulfilling Work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Firefly offers amazing experience in very specialized disciplines. The work environment is consistently exciting and engaging. There is an enormous sense of comradery with your coworkers and it is extremely fulfilling to overcome huge obstacles together. The entire staff is very respectful of each other and really value communication / collaboration.

Cons

Everyone works hard but everyone is passionate about what were doing, how could you not be?

3.0
Dec 28, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Guaranteed you will be doing things you have never done before. Everyone there is in that boat. This can be good in terms of learning new things, but the flip side is that no one really knows what they are doing nor has the time to work it out. When the schedule is super rushed and things need to be done fast and right, and you have 5 times more things to do than you could possibly do in the given time, it can be a recipe for failure, as there isn't time to do the job well. This creates "no-win" situations. Everyone is winging it, and there are lots of mistakes and oversights as a result (and people being fired). But it may come together and be successful in the end--stranger things have happened.

Cons

All the various cons for this company stem from the insanely unrealistic schedule. They try to do design, development, qualification, infra structure, and training simultaneously in a mad dash to put something in the air. It is definitely an "I'd rather be lucky than smart" environment. The other slogan that is very applicable is " We don't have time to do it right, but we have time to do it over". But to be fair, Firefly isn't the only company in this industry afflicted that way.

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