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General Dynamics Electric Boat reviews

3.4

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,686 total reviews)
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Kevin Graney

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61% positive business outlook

General Dynamics Electric Boat has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,686 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The General Dynamics Electric Boat 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
2.0
May 12, 2018

Stressful place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Challenging work in shipbuilding environment.

Cons

Stressful place to work. Had to park a mile away and took a shuttle in to the workplace due to parking issue at Groton Campus. The buildings for employees were old and poor insulation. Culture of the workplace was too much office politics which attributed to the lack of productivity. Management did not care to listen to their employees concerns and was very bureaucratic at times. Most of the work was paper-pusher that provided little career growth in the long term. Had to work the days between Christmas and New Year while other defense companies paid this time off. Had to clock in the hours daily using a timecard machine for both hourly and salary. Below average benefit package.

2.0
Apr 18, 2018

Engineer 2

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Interesting work, security clearance, responsibility early, highly complex work depending on department,solid health plan, 401 k vests immediately

Cons

Terrible parking, pay raises small so most employees leave after 2 years, after initial promotion it is 4 years or so until next promotion, new employees coming in make more than you, high turnover rate, doing the minimum is the status quo, hoarding of knowlege, depending on department told to each lunch at desk and continue working, doesnt maintain facilities (we had to fix our own microwave when it broke), limited opportunities to move higher up. If you are not identified early as a star employee, it is very difficult to advance

4.0
Mar 29, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people, flexible hours, very stable, have the opportunity to work on interesting projects, the company is large enough that you can find a niche for just about any type of engineering you want to do and switching departments is pretty easy.

Cons

The surrounding area is pretty dead. Also, it’s a large corporation and it’s clear the higher ups don’t care much about the average employee (parking is absolutely terrible because the company refuses to build convenient parking lots, they usually find a way to make you use PTO during extreme inclement weather despite the entire state shut down, etc).

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