It was going downhill two years ago; now it has reached rock bottom. - Anonymous employee BAE Systems Employee Review

2.0
Jul 4, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1) Some genuine good people both professionally and personally in CS at the HQ office (Guildford). 2) Depending on your department, you can have a pretty relaxed time. That's about it.

Cons

1) The focus keeps changing every 3 months. The engineering will plan things out, work towards the plan and 3 months down the line the management will change focus. Then they will BLAME engineering for not delivering. 2) Most talent has left in the last 3 years. The management drove the talent away due to lack of investment and false promises. 3) Attrition rate is at its full capacity. It seems that everyone is jumping off the sinking (wrong: sunk) ship. 4) Abysmal senior management. When one of the directors was asked what is their plan to address attrition and lack of investment she responded that she does not want to hear these questions again, seriously that happened.

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