General Atomics reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(566 total reviews)
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Neal Blue

77% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

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1.0
Apr 29, 2022

Avoid!!!

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Pros

Pension... That's about it. Nothing here is good for the long term.

Cons

Micromanaging, upper management holds these monthly meetings to answer questions and try their best at avoiding sensitive topics like work from home, competitive pay. Employee retention is horrible. they would rather hire new employees than pay current employees competitive pay to meet industry average. they keep saying they are looking into fair pay for years. Lately they screwed all employees on bonuses and raises while the company made huge profit and met goals. Micromanaging, work weekends and unpaid overtime. If you aren't part of the old boys club then you are wasting your time there. Upper management is great at stalling in making changes. Just a bunch of lies. GA pays about 10-15 percent less than most DoD companies in San Diego. latest bonuses were between 1-2 percent, not even close to the 7 percent inflation. Avoid!!! Stay away and work somewhere else where they care about taking care of their engineers. go to Northrup, ratheon, L3, Anduril. Way more pay there and better life-work balance and culture. My years at Northrup were way better than GA. Switching back soon.

2.0
Apr 27, 2022

Clueless management

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Pros

Good pay. Pension with 401k is nice.

Cons

Lack of vision by upper management. They can’t budget to save their lives. It amazes me that they stay employed with the way they manage the programs.

2.0
Apr 18, 2022

GA EMS Division

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Pros

Decent Pay. Skilled people who work hard for success

Cons

Negative leadership from the top No 9/80 (the rest of the company has it) Poor contact bid success. The division is struggling to overcome a poor reputation caused by the EMALS/AAG programs for the navy. Layoffs and attrition have reduced the workforce by probably 25% in the last year.

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