CAE reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,808 total reviews)
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Matthew Bromberg

52% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

CAE has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,808 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CAE 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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2K reviews
1.0
Mar 5, 2016

Micromanage Wrong Things

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Pros

Certain freedoms to accomodate client needs. Overtime and day off pay. Worst performers can't get fired!

Cons

Complete disrespect for instructors and examiners. Lower than ABAA pilot pay per type fir instructors. No additional qualification pay, TCE, SIM, CHeck airman. Simulators break, and maintenace is slow to fix complex issues CAE courseware and standardization is amaturish, out dated incomplete and unecessarily complex. Very little practical training of instructors, yet a lot of criticism of instructors for not complying with untrained unexplained and sometimes hidden policies. No chance for advancement unless you are part of the " bubba- club" that runs the place. Managers are incompetent, mostly former pilots with littled or no background or training in management. Adversarial and threatening management style. Managers incapable of mentoring and developing employees. The key upper management come from the outside without a clue, with the exception of one or two lifers that started as janitors and now run the place.

2.0
Jun 26, 2015

Finance

Recommend
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Pros

Good Benefits, in general most employees are good to work with.

Cons

Management is good at running the business but fail at employee engagement. The hard working employees have to pick up the slack for those that aren't. No one held accountable. Management belittles employees. HR is useless and protects management instead of getting to the real problems . The work environment is very hostile. No advancements for women. Co workers are allowed to be disruptive and unprofessional to others. Empty promises from management. CAE used to be a great place to work but reorganize every two years with new upper management with their own goals in mind and is destroying the company. The good and long lasting employees are leaving. Every week there's a new person leaving. I have witnessed harassment and bulling to others.

1.0
Sep 27, 2014

bad company running in circles

Anonymous employee
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Pros

good mission cool technology decent work-life balance

Cons

low compensation horrible management employee morale is in the toilet from heavy workloads and layoffs employees are encouraged to lie to customers and potential customers to close a sale no camaraderie between employees because culture is divided between ex-METI and CAE employees CAE Healthcare appears to be an afterthought to corporate

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