Noblis reviews

Highly team dependent. Work satisfaction will depend on the contract/project you land on. Technical work is evaporating and more and more time is spent making pretty power point presentations that have little value, are presented once and then immediately discarded and never referenced again. Repeat monthly. Management of certain sections is very hamstrung, non communicative and ineffective. Managers are oblivious to many challenges ongoing, and when presented with them often sit for months on an issue until it boils over and becomes a problem. Many times, they have been ineffective at resolving those issues at that point. Management does not do a good job of managing customer needs. Too much emphasis is placed on never questioning the client, leading to too much duplicated or wasted effort because management rushed to get a product instead of attempting to determine what does the customer need/want and getting clarification. I have not experienced much opportunity for lateral movement and working on multiple projects. It seems to be often the case of becoming too valuable to a single individual project and not being allowed to split time or branch out. I have witnessed others share this experience, as well as others not be constrained. Seems to be luck of the draw on managers/projects.

Used to be a great place to work. Witness the events of the last six years, listed most recently first: Company wins biggest contract of its history – unfortunately it was done with low rates, hence it begins laying off 20 and 30 year vets and cutting severance before it lays them off; that must be why it’s been honored for “ethics”; over the last 6 years, there have been biting cuts in medical and 401K contribution and short term disability and scholarships and educational reimbursement for children and employees – the list is endless. Yet if you kiss up to the right people and/or were entrenched in the country club of MITRE, you can go very far at Noblis. Management thought they were rebranding the company as “noblis oblige” – “benevolent, honorable behavior considered to be the responsibility of persons of high birth or rank.” But that phrase is used in French most often ironically - the supposed obligation of nobility to be honorable and generous. You gave up the most valuable thing you had – name recognition! MIT! MITRE! For what? A company name that starts with a negative?