BAE Systems reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(4,231 total reviews)
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Charles Woodburn

81% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

BAE Systems has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,231 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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1.0
Oct 10, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Nice modern offices - Friendly staff and a welcoming Guildford reception team - Attempting to encourage girls to get into tech and cyber security to improve the gender balance.

Cons

I left on good terms but this is the worst place I have ever worked. It's only a matter of time until BAE sell the Applied Intelligence division. - The news and poor financial results (£19m + losses) will tell you most things you need to know about BAE and AI. It's just made a large number of redundancies. - The company pays significantly below market rate and you will be asked to accept the minimum salary possible on a 40 hour week. The bonus hasn't paid out in years but they will try to sell this to you as a benefit. - Slow recruitment process - Lack of internal promotions and movement. - The majority of people within the business have never worked in cyber security before but think it looks cool. From the inside, there's a lack of direction and expertise.

2.0
Oct 10, 2017

Painful

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great people who are super smart Some really interesting work for some really interesting clients

Cons

Frequent reorganisations take the focus off doing great work Increasingly more mundane and less exceptional work High attrition of talented people Not listening to the messages coming from customers as to what they really want Stuck between industries and markets without really knowing where to be

1.0
Oct 9, 2017

Utterly horrible management

Recommend
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Pros

Working with an interesting domain and complex problems. Good colleagues (at least the ones who are left in the company).

Cons

Complete lack of focus from management. Frequent re-organisations. Too much reactiveness and too little proactiveness. No room for innovation. Way too much time is wasted on politics rather than providing value to the customers. No freedom to move. Everything is controlled with an iron grip by the top management only, and they are obviously completely detached from what is actually going on.

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