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      3.6

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (692 total reviews)
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      Tom Hammoor

      50% approve of CEO

      40% positive business outlook

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      Textron Systems has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 692 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Textron Systems 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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      692 reviews
      2.0
      May 28, 2011

      Pending doom

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Located in a great location with excellent views. Employees have Offices with doors, so the workplace is quiet. Flexible work hours are nice. Company was a great place to work.

      Cons

      Management has driven company to the brink. The quality of the software has suffered over the years due to the business model being one in which the company only fixes bugs when the customer pays for it. Since the customer only wants new features, there is never money to fixes bugs. Over the years, this has led to a code-base so complex and bug-ridden that developing even low quality complex code is extrodinarly expensive. End result, major customers have no interest. Major layoffs will continue for the forseable future, especially in the financially negative environments for DoD contractors. Overwatch can't compete even good times anymore.

      1.0
      May 23, 2011

      Slow downward spiral has rapidly turned into deep tail-spin

      Principal software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Used to hire really smart developers. Many are still there. - Some good test practices, have a good test group. - Deliveries are consistently more stable, better tested than other contractors. - The Software Product Line approach has finally failed (only scaled-down version exists in the form of "futures"). - Mostly window offices rather than cubes. - Located in South Austin. - Some advance notice over the past few months about impending layoffs.

      Cons

      - Jim Wade retired a long time ago. After company was acquired by Textron it hasn't been the same since. - Ambitious, talented developers run off by old-school, out-of-touch management. Now many of these developers are competitors who are siphoning away contracts. - Lost good managers (domain experts) who could bring in new business. - 0% flexibility to work from home. - No more pay over 40 hours (unlike competitors). - No flex-time. - Process at the expense of common sense (too much process, and the process police are often clueless). - The customer is often difficult, political, unpredictable, sometimes nasty. - Bug fix cycles can be monotonous, mind-numbingly tedious (lots of process). - Series of layoffs over the last two years have taken huge toll on morale. - Technical lead role usually means you'll never write code again. - The definition of a "good developer" according to management is often someone willing travel or take on lead roles rather than someone who can actually design or write code. This has resulted in a dilution of technical competency over the years.

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