BAE Systems reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(4,234 total reviews)
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Charles Woodburn

82% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

BAE Systems has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,234 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BAE 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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4K reviews
3.0
Jan 7, 2018

Finance

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good place to start if you don't know the management style from outside

Cons

Management is a complete mess. Old senior managers are blockers to young talent progress. They see reasons why fresh ideas cannot work. Offsite trainings are record in the successfactor. it is ever available for employee to go onto and if you are lucky to get one, manager will not approve if not within the local area (cost driven) Internal career progression is slim and only given to selected few that can play the game. Worst of it is salary descrimination, pay scale is not available to know where the business pitch you. Managers would always use surbordinate to remain for selfishish reasons, to appear good to the business and get pay and bonuses

3.0
Jan 4, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Global company, in extremely interesting business area, using state of the art software to create innovative solutions to real customer problems

Cons

Disorganised and lacking in overall strategy and vision

2.0
Jan 3, 2018

Not in the real world

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good company for getting further training and courses!

Cons

Management is a complete mess. Very little experience, some senior design people have been there over 25 years and worked on 2 projects! Red tape within the company is ridiculous, people producing meaningless/unnecessary process and systems to just keep themselves in a job. Supply Chain need sacking in their entirety, staffed by a whole host of non-engineers who overule decisions/ requests by experienced engineers. Shockingly bad.

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