BAE Systems USA reviews

Not much opportunity for lateral or upward movement. Most of the upward movement is made by kids hand selected straight out of college and pushed through the ranks past experienced and tenured staff. Standard 2% raises every year, no merit based increases. Not very impressive salaries.

I was interviewed for a FPGA/Firmware position at BAE in Nashua.. The FPGA team and work sounded great and I accepted the offer. On my first day, I discovered that without my knowledge or consent, I'd been switched to another group and that I would be doing System I&T, writing test plans and such, with no FPGA work at all. I spoke with the boss and he said there must have been a "misunderstanding" and that he'd try to get me back into the FPGA group. How anyone can confuse FPGA design and System I&T is beyond my comprehension, but I said "OK" and proceeded with cautious optimism. When I got into the FPGA group, the boss said they had more people than work and I'd be acting in a "dual role" as a code documentation person - following people around and documenting their VHDL. He never did say what the second role was, but I got the message pretty quick - there was no second role. I'd been hired for a position that didn't exist. I left a perfectly good job to come to BAE for what sounded like a great opportunity, and instead got switched into a position that I would have never taken, by a careless and unapologetic hiring team.