General Dynamics Mission Systems reviews

Losing focus on products, resistant to aggressive pursuits, resistant to spending internal funds on IRandD

The management structure makes no sense -- there are at least 5 effective layers of management between me and the person who finds work for me, so he has no idea what I actually do. Communication is horrid. Every project I started on would begin with 10 people individually asking about file permissions, where documents are, etc before management realized that they should just take care of all of it at once. All we have are technical managers who are supposed to be able to tell me how to do our task, but they don't even know. The other kind of managers are people managers, who guide meetings, clearly delegate responsibilities, help guide brainstorming, and otherwise guide workers to a common goal. They didn't do that well, either. There are no opportunities for advancement. Sure, they give you a new title every few years and a good raise, but you don't actually do anything different. I really want to get into management, but they are unwilling to notice. Also, my voice is rarely heard when there is a problem. Without getting everybody in one room, they assume that if it's you versus somebody who's been there for 20 years that you must be wrong and not a team player. All the while, I haven't had but one steady project in 5 years of full time employment. There has been no mentorship to show me how to do the most important tasks of my job (ie hardware development), and every project feels like I'm reinventing the wheel.