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      General Atomics reviews

      3.8

      72% would recommend to a friend

      (1,978 total reviews)
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      77% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

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      General Atomics has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,978 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The General Atomics 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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      2K reviews
      1.0
      Sep 29, 2023

      Toxic

      Billing specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good salary, benefits, equipment, building, no shortage of spending here.

      Cons

      Completely toxic workplace culture. You will need therapy.

      3.0
      Sep 10, 2023

      Values loyalty over performance

      Research scientist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      San Diego is nice, Torrey Pines campus is very pleasant. A lot of talented scientist to work with. Pay is alright, but I notice a lot of scientists struggling to afford San Diego nonetheless. La Jolla is about as unnaffordable as it gets so you more/less have to commute no matter where you live. 9x80 means every other friday off, and well you get to live near the beach if you are in San Diego, so that is actually super nice.

      Cons

      Procurement and beurocracy seems optimized to frustrate engineers and stifle progress. Management seems unable to track budgets, risk averse and not open to change. IT is a joke, and tele-working is only tacitly approved and unfortunately not well supported by their archaic IT systems. 401(k) vesting slow pension? is that even worth anything? Overhead rates are crazy high, which basically means labor consumes hours from a project like no other, so it's hard to fund R&D appropriately. Flying F35s overhead are noisy :)

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