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      General Atomics

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      General Atomics Senior Software Developer reviews

      3.7

      90% would recommend to a friend

      (17 total reviews)
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      99% approve of CEO

      96% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.6

      Senior management

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Compensation and benefits

      Senior Software Developer employees have rated General Atomics with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 17 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. General Atomics is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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      17 reviews
      3.0
      Mar 28, 2022

      Employee

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Company diversification in research and development.

      Cons

      Having young talent retention ability

      3.0
      Mar 22, 2022

      Improve Management

      Senior software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      401K match up to 50% max of 8% contribution, Pension Plan, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, employee discounts

      Cons

      Other teams take people from different teams without giving employees a choice.

      2.0
      Oct 20, 2021

      One-trick Pony

      Senior software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      This company came up with and still makes predator drones, which does raise its cool factor. Also, I'm pretty sure it's the same General Atomics in Fallout 4. So, I guess some people get a kick out of being around military stuff, without actually risking their lives. Too bad that drone is becoming their one-and-only trick. Their pay is low but they do have pretty good work-life balance and they offer a pension plan. This attracts a lot of semi-retired engineers. If you are a junior engineer, this is a good start, but I would turn and burn ASAP; the old tech will hold you back. They will get you a national security clearance if that floats your boat.

      Cons

      * If you like cube farms and traveling to the desert and other wastelands, then apply. * Their tech is 20 years old; they still use manual testers and dev ops is a human process; i.e. there is no such thing CI/CD here. I want to say that the majority of their engineers are semi-retired and don't even know what AWS is. * Their methodology is nowhere near Agile. Their software has a ton of technical debt. They put performance and quality last. * Their project managers walk around like they're rock stars. They always complain about the quality of the software but never want to fund regression or performance testing. * There's a lot of UCSD influence here; i.e. they get a kick out of C++ and look down on web technologies and other "script kiddies". Modern UI frameworks like React or Angular are almost unheard of here.

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