Shield AI reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(194 total reviews)
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Gary Steele

76% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Shield AI has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 194 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shield AI 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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194 reviews
2.0
Sep 3, 2023
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Pros

The product idea is interesting, but many other defense companies are way ahead. Nothing “special” about the product.

Cons

Before coming here I read a lot of negative reviews and decided to ignore them thinking they were most biased reviews from a small few of disgruntled employees. But now I realize that’s 99% of the employee base. Biggest mistake of my life was coming to this company. The executives use patriotism as an excuse to treat employees like poorly. The middle managers are lying out of their teeth to save their own careers, but lack the technical competence to manage. The product is is decades behind other industry leaders, even China. The organizational technical architecture is terrible, some of the worst I’ve seen in many years. The culture has some real issues; horribly toxic for a working woman. If you have kids you won’t have any time to spend 10 minutes with your kids or bring parents to hospital. You record your timed on 15 minute increments, and the executives have asked teams doing 80 hour a week should be upped to 100 hours a week on average. And please note - any feedback you provide will be held against you on future reviews, even if they “say” it’s anonymous. They are actively using polls to try and weed out all the people who are posting negative reviews on indeed and blind, don’t be fooled. HR is also extremely unhelpful for almost any issue I have brought up to them.

5.0
Aug 4, 2023

Solid overall but not for everyone

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Pros

- Great opportunity to work on complex issues with a potentially high-impact - You'll work with some brilliant and experienced engineers - Most people are genuinely kind and willing to work with you on those issues, even if it wasn't in their purview originally - You'll likely learn a lot, both on your own and from others - As the company evolves, there are definitely areas for growth and promotion, and even the ability to create opportunities for yourself. - Company does well to promote from within first.

Cons

- Team and project dependent, but you may work more than 40 hours weekly. Some don't like the extra time, and some see it as rewarding given the impact of your work. - Acquisitions are long over but overall integration can feel disjointed in areas. - Some teams appear to have a relatively high turnover but there are plenty of teams that have rarely lost people in years. This just indicates that some teams do need work but given time, it's likely to iron out - Funding can feel stretched at times and not balanced across the org, which then requires a lot of workarounds or inefficient homegrown solutions

1.0
Jul 31, 2023

Disorganized and Inhumane Company

Recommend
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Pros

Pay is okay, not top tier for what can be made for most F&A professionals.

Cons

Shield AI is one of the most dysfunctonal and inhumane companies I have ever worked out. While we are all in positions to do work, they treat people as if they purely numbers and can be discarded casually without any warning, at any time. The person that is in charge of HR is ruthless and does not care that he is messing with peoples lives when a casual decision is made to terminate people overnight. The CTO should be the CEO, and the CEO lies and paints an unrealistic picture for employees. The Company is not in great financial shape and basically operating on borrowed time and money to support the overinflated salaries of an incompetent and inexperienced C-Suite.

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