employer cover photo
employer logo
employer logo

Textron Aviation

Is this your company?

Textron Aviation reviews

3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(868 total reviews)
avatar

Ron Draper

92% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Textron Aviation has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 868 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Textron Aviation employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

Reviews by job title

868 reviews
2.0
Apr 27, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Exciting, getting to fly great equipment. For the short time I was employed there, I woke every day loving life and my job!

Cons

As one “long-term” employee once said to me, “until you cross the five year mark nobody considers you part of this team.” Sadly, I was there for only one year before the brutal corporate cut came and my position was eliminated due to budget cuts. My “cut notice” came in the form of an email/text while I was on vacation with my family (brutal, very septic way to let an employee go).

3.0
Dec 10, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible schedule. Allows alternate schedule opportunity. Salary is ok.

Cons

What you get for flexible work hours you lose in salary, opportunities, and fear of layoffs. Always broke, layoffs every 2-4 years. Really have to buy into the " your lucky to have a job work harder and you won't have to worry about it" mentality. Management heavy, only care about employees who want to be managers. Have no clue how to mentor individual contributors. Play favorites have no clear promotion guidelines, depends all on your boss to promote you and they have to argue with other managers why you deserve it even though they don't know you. Literally have no mission statement or values. Which plays into the shoot from the hip policy's they implement. Seems to just be figuring it out as they go. At least 30 percent of your job if not more is overhead. Training interns and contractors or vendors. Don't invest in IT. Brag about having one of the lowest budgets for IT at a large company level. Have even flirted with making IT employees buy their own laptops for work. Have a program for incoming new employees for leadership just have to sign up they have no qualifications outside of other new employees do but they are put on a pedestal and pegged for management. Makes no sense and creates a rift between employees.

1.0
Aug 19, 2018

Horrible Place To Work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Coworkers and direct bosses are great

Cons

Unrealistic schedules, forcing engineering staff to make decisions that only set the program back in the long run, very little potential for raises or promotions.

Viewing 7 - 9 of 868 Reviews

Glassdoor has 1,172 Textron Aviation reviews submitted anonymously by Textron Aviation employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Textron Aviation is right for you.