CAE reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,809 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 1,809 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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Pros

The people are nice, it's a great employer of ex service personnelle and students out of Uni.

Cons

Rigid compliance and approach, any alternative approaches or opinions are quickly shut down with bureaucracy speeches. Very few people have any experience outside of CAE, the wider world of work and different ways of doing things, especially management who are extremely are extremely resistant to change. If you’re ex-defence or a student with no prior work experience, you will not know any different and likely fit in reasonably well. CAEs has a heavily institutionalised culture in the way they do things, resistance, insecure and quashing of modern approaches and ways of work. If you are an industry or trade experience person looking to grow, this will feel like corporate boot camp from the 90’s, radical compliance, you basically must justify your cost each week and what value you are bringing under compliance reports and audits, especially if your part of internal services and support.

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