Pros
Currently there are still a lot of people at Cessna that want to do a good job and want to share ideas. These people have been around since Cessna built their first jet. It's a great place to get experience in the aviation industry.
Cons
When I started at Cessna, they wanted people to be part of the Cessna family. Those words aren't spoken anymore. Textron has taken full control of the company and their only goal is to squeeze every last cent out of their subsidiaries for their stock holders. In order of importance, share holder are at the top followed by executives, customers and then employees. I've always believed if you really take care of the customer, the share holder part would take care of itself with customer loyalty. Our current Cessna President was brought in from GE to squeeze the company for Textron. In order to stay with the company, plan on only saying yes and never turn down a chance to volunteer for more work than you can handle. Cessna has taken on the GE practice of taking the bottom 10% of people with good reviews and bumping them down a grade which puts them on the list for candidates at the next layoff. The future of Cessna is high turnover, maximum work in an extremely lean working environment and employee to employee predatory working environment. If you want to raise a family, aviation is a poor choice due to its constant instability, Cessna just increases the frequency of how often you wonder if your job is secure. Is the aircraft market bad or is it just time for the yearly review again? Cessna isn't a family anymore.
