Nov 6, 2022
L3Harris reviews
3.6
64% would recommend to a friend
Chris Kubasik
58% approve of CEO
54% positive business outlook
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L3Harris has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 5,250 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The L3Harris 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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3.0
Oct 30, 2022
A very average job but well below average compensation
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 3 years
Melbourne, FL
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
It's an average job for the industry. Some days are good, some are not. Some projects are good while others are dumpster fires due to poor planning by those bidding contracts. A nice pro is there is rarely direct micromanagement and some managers are allowing remote work. The downside is corporate wants to axe remote work again and limit it to only certain days of the week, so this benefit will likely be gone in practice next year. 4 weeks vacation (no accrual, also no payout for unused so you must use 4 weeks per year or you are just losing out), Inexpensive but not that great of insurance options. 401k is through Fidelity. Allegedly the culture is "pay for performance". Sounds great in theory but my experience has been you will never surpass inflation as your annual raise so you just keep making less money over time. There are effectively L3 through L6 as position ranks, so four pay bands for the majority of staff (read: likely only 3 promotions possible in your career for most employees). L1 to L2 don't exist for engineers. Theoretically there is a lot of room to move up without a formal title change. A rare L7 exists here and there, but only a few career employees are granted the rank.
Cons
Middle management does not and seemingly cannot offer any career enhancing opportunities at present. No training opportunities. No industry conference visits. No certifications to earn. Not even support for publishing trade studies because some people just don't want to deal with getting the content reviewed. A stale innovation program due to reviewers in charge being rather dismissive of disruptive technologies they don't understand. Exceptionally limited input is accepted from those who have been end users of products and services. Upper management only exists to cut costs and squeeze more out of employees. CEO received more than $15 million in 2021 while staff received <3% raises in many cases. I have never once seen any executive in person in the office. They don't associate with engineers working some of the most lucrative and profitable programs the company is involved in. Best you'll get is your sector president or VP hiding behind a video conference where they won't answer any question that is difficult or has a potentially negative answer. I am leaving for a nearly 50% raise at a competitor with $60k sign on bonus. I will have no additional responsibilities and will likely be working fewer hours annually from wherever I want. HR will probably respond here with their canned statement about having a competitive compensation program. L3Harris compensation is only competitive in terms of who can compete to pay the least in my recent first-hand experience. They use almost the same payscale as another large defense company known to be a cubicle farm for those who want to twiddle their thumbs and just collect their paychecks. I was never offered a meaningful raise within the company despite bringing in several million dollars in revenue. No bonuses anymore either, so zero incentive to try to bring in new business. Truth be told, there is no reason for any employee here to care about company financial performance as they don't get meaningful raises anyways.
2.0
Oct 25, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
* Great people to work with * A lot of people willing to help * Good place to co-op - they get you a clearance with no trouble and give you real work. No PTO, though * Nice amount of PTO (someone was saying it's capped at 4 weeks - that's true for new hires; it increases based on tenure (5 years is 6 weeks), and 4 weeks PTO for new hires is incredibly generous) * Generous holiday schedule - we had 11 paid holidays
Cons
* Compensation is weird - what was equivalently an SDE 1.5/2 was paid less than me - I was hired as an SDE 1. Someone else who started on my date was an SDE 2 and was paid 15k more. I saw a review mentioning that new grad college hires are told that they their compensation is adjusted at an accelerated pace. That is a lie. New grads are reviewed at the same pace as others. * Very little formal/informal resources besides coworkers * Tech stack was vanilla Java & JavaFX. Only.
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