Textron Systems reviews

- Fell out of favor with many customers when AIS was once a favorite - Lost customer focus - Chased off long-time senior employees because the GM left in charge felt threatened by them - Incompetent senior management - Lack of vision and drive in senior management

- 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.