BAE Systems USA reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(3,618 total reviews)
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Tom Arseneault

75% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

BAE Systems USA has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,618 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BAE Systems USA 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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2.0
Aug 26, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay for experience and allows you to break into the industry. Many avenues to transfer internally.

Cons

Politics everywhere. I was an employee at three different physical locations, all filled with disgruntled employees who wouldn't do their jobs. Several other employees and I would be burdened with all the burden, but I would get to work. IT, in particular, is rife with people who do nothing. Management will lie through their teeth if it means they can keep stringing you along to work harder without compensation. They have an impact award, designed for going above and beyond, but it is often used instead of paying employees for overtime pay. This would be fine except you generally get paid significantly less than what your salary would be. When placing boundaries with management after an internal Shakespeare's of I need to be notified at least a week before coming in for an entire weekend, I got met with hostility. Then, a made-up scenario that sent me to HR was disingenuous and portrayed me as flying off the handle and losing my temper when the manager was screaming at me for asking a simple question: Are we upgrading these computers to a particular OS? There are way too many managers telling everyone what to do constantly, you could do with 1/4 the amount of managers and twice the workers.

2.0
Aug 21, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can disappear for awhile and nobody notices you, can be deadwood if you want, good "culture "and team members, WFH that's slowly disappearing.

Cons

Lots of legacy code, tons of red tape, shady management that might smile to your face and lie about your job security, pay raises that will make you fall behind inflation, no real path to promotion or skills that are readily transferable outside of any defense contractor or someone working on a legacy project, beginning to lose to its competitors like andruil and palantir.

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