Saab Group reviews

The company manages to survive despite terrible mismanagement on all levels thanks to a few very talented people who like working on fighters. Management does not understand what the people below them actually do (Most of them are external hires that leave within 1-2 years), and does little to try to solve the problems reported to them. There is a rather sickening obsession among the decision makers with promising unrealistic deadlines to the customers for every iteration and refusing to accept any of the negative feedback they receive about it, so the organization is constantly in a manufactured emergency over being "late", and developers are required to put in a lot of overtime to "help" reduce the delay (Which it arguably fails to do, as people make more mistakes when they are tired). Senior engineers are replaced with junior developers that are not expected to improve themselves, the remaining senior engineers are required to pick up the slack, causing them to burn out and leave, and over time the organization is turning into a less and less desirable place to work at. I believe Saab averages about 10% below market average for salaries and are not concerned with improving this.

It is a very strange environment. I have just started and I do not have any work to do. I am given 'work' that I have pretend to work on and log hours to it on an online system. I really should of know. A few months ago when I was interviewed the interviewers seemed very strange. They seemed to not know what position they were interviewing for. I now find myself looking for another job just after starting. At this point I really feel I should of stayed at my previous employer. I should of really asked more questions in the interview....