Thales reviews

Poor upper/middle management in my department. Zero training or recognition of those who do work while ignoring the other half who don't work. There are some good departments and great mgmt there apparently, just not my experience or what I heard thru the grapevine and others. Also didn't seem to care too much about quality (of products or of data/results we produce) when I started although that mentality may have been changing but the damage done may be tough to overcome. Hard to believe they've been able to keep customers, much less get new ones.

You will be pressured into working almost every weekend. You're family will miss you. You will have no work / life balance, work will be your life. The culture is very subservant to management and having to donate nights and weekends does not seem to bother many of them in the least. Having to work the weekends is mostly a product of bad I&T support and lack of availablity of equipment to work with. There is a huge resource problem here that involves lack of products to test on, lack of computers to work on, lack of network bandwidth, lack of cables and even lack of restroom bandwidth! So they could buy more equipment (which costs money) or they can have you work the weekend (which is free).