BAE Systems reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(4,208 total reviews)
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Charles Woodburn

81% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

BAE Systems has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,208 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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4.0
Oct 29, 2015

Undergoing change

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The quality of people you can work with; can be stressful but project teams works for each other and can be good fun

Cons

Tension between different parts of the business, quite a lot of churn and change in company structure, a lot more process & paperwork

3.0
Oct 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good starting salary, good friendships and relationships with SOME employees, good prospects starting from shop floor

Cons

Dead-mans shoes (business is good at making team leaders from shop floor but not moving forwards after, ever increasing stress from above AND below, ever increasing workload without ever increasing help.

4.0
Oct 22, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent team of people, with an exciting mix of technical challenges and project across military and commercial sector. Graduate program great start to career.

Cons

Process and paperwork heavy environment with high focus on budgets and business winning. Federated nature means that sub-businesses can be merged and staff reduced often.

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