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      BAE Systems

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      BAE Systems reviews

      3.9

      75% would recommend to a friend

      (4,207 total reviews)
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      Charles Woodburn

      80% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Senior management

      BAE Systems has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,207 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
      2.0
      May 29, 2015

      Systems Admin I

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The hours can be flexible depending on where you work and who your boss is. The location of the facility is about 20 minutes from downtown.

      Cons

      Management. Management is really the major problem if this company. There is hardly any communication between seniors and subordinates. If there are layoffs, you aren't noted a head of time so you can plan accordingly, especially if you have family. For two or three years, the company has been reducing it's staff to "remain competitive" yet the company is still not competitive. When I started, BAE was number 3 in top defense contractors in the US and that number has feel sharply.

      2.0
      May 23, 2015

      Chaotic change approach. Trying to leverage Detica capability whilst haemorrhaging the talent

      Senior manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You can move around, work/life balance has improved... But this is in part because people care less about what they're doing.

      Cons

      In the last three years the company has changed significantly. Many senior figures have left (effective ones and dead weight) and many senior technical resources have left. Change needs to happen in a business and there were things that definitely needed to be improved in the old system but what we have today is chaos: lack of defined org structures, barely performing functional staff, a technical company run by over-empowered operations teams and management that are constantly in-fighting to preserve themselves and not caring about their teams at all. There are, of course, exceptions to this, but they're becoming increasingly rare. The culture seems to be based heavily on nepotism rather than the meritocracy it used to be and the firm seems to be becoming decreasingly diverse!

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