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FlightSafety International

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FlightSafety International reviews

3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(713 total reviews)

Eric Hinson

57% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

FlightSafety International has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 713 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FlightSafety International 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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713 reviews
1.0
Jul 21, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Not many. Pay check but it does not compare to industry standard. Use the experience you get here to make your resume look good then get out as soon as you can. Use them because they will and have used us

Cons

It's a plastic carrot that is hung in front of you. You will never achieve your desire in a career here. If you don't mind low low low pay then this place is for you

5.0
Sep 27, 2019

Great Place to Work If You Have Low Self-Esteem!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you are in the in-crowd with management, they'll always have a place for you even if you are a poor manager or an overall bad person. Negativity welcomed and incited. "Team" is non-existent, but who wants to work cooperatively with coworkers towards a sound business solution anyway?

Cons

Going to the office. Talked down to daily, if at all. Threatened and insulted regularly.

2.0
Sep 18, 2015

Good people, low pay, terrible QOL

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The instructors and most program managers are good people. It's very stable.

Cons

They will work you to death and you will not receive any extra compensation. Be ready for consistent 6 days on with 1 day off. If you have a day on the schedule that's open, they will expect you to be on-call. The pay is between 30-35% below what your peers are making doing the same job for the competition. The program managers are generally really good but, the center management and for sure the corporate management are completely out of touch with the workers. You will only get credit for time you spend with the clients. You will be expected to do many hours of training each year, all of your work in preparation before the client shows up, and all of your paperwork with no credit. Essentially, you are donating 1.5-2 hours everyday to the company. They have no respect for your quality of life. If you show up, do your briefing, climb in the sim and discover the sim is broke, you will be expected to wait until the sim is up and running and then continue. So, if the sim takes 4-5 hours to get fixed, you will work a 12-15 hour day. There's a lot of retired military folks at the center management level. That's not bad in itself but, they will nit pick just like the military. This company literally can't find anyone who wants to work for them yet, you have some managers who will nit pick your shoes or uniform. If I was them, I would go out of my way not to run someone off but, because they are so out of touch with reality they'll nit pick. My best advice for the military is if you want to run it like the military go back to the military. They are extremely cheap, their computers are 10 years out of date. Their pay is at least 30% lower than the competitors pay yet, they make money hand over fist.

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