General Atomics reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,982 total reviews)
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77% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

General Atomics has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,982 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
4.0
Mar 21, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

*Very inclusive of all types of people, and good at making people from all walks feel comfortable. *They make an effort to support their employees. *They rarely lay off or fire anyone without financial or other reasons.

Cons

*Lots of procedures and paperwork for everything, which tends to clog up some of the processes and slow down work. *Employees are often required to stay in their lane, preventing new skills being learned. *When they lay people off, they do so with no warning.

4.0
Mar 18, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Values employees and offers multiple opportunities

Cons

EMS division has been struggling to win contracts

2.0
Mar 18, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

9/80 work week The working level relationships and people

Cons

The culture at this company has taken such a fall from grace to where it was four years ago. Senior leadership is completely out of touch and tone deaf to employees. A newer culture with recent senior leadership hires has fostered one of misogyny, nepotism, exclusivity, ageism to name a few. Senior leadership has abhorrently taken on a culture of exclusivity, closed door meetings to anyone but VPs, and a team that is obtusely white male over the age of 60. CEO is acutely aware of the latest attrition and culture changes but refuses to take on confrontation with subordinates to make any meaningful change. Senior leadership ignores employment attrition due to lack of remote flexibility and low pay. Even for those willing to stay with only an equitable market value are encouraged to leave with Internal processes through HR for meaningful and reasonable promotions taking godly acts that extend months long, creating a harder environment to retain talent. The name of the game with the senior staff is ego. All business decisions, actions, and meeting activities are at the behest of political agendas internally, regardless of the toll it takes on subordinates or good business practice. Working Weekends, holidays are the norm. Business these days has an air of desperation as such. Everything is a fire, emergency, and due now. No appreciation or respect for internally documented processes and procedures, and an unwillingness from senior leadership to utilize them. Commentary from current and previous employees is that the culture here is emotionally abusive, a very sad turn over the last several years.

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