Pros
it's convenient to Boston and the Seacoast. It used to be one of the best defense companies going. As a former Military Officer I came to BAE because it was viewed as one of the most competent honest Defense firms around. The employees seemed generally happy. Compensation was fair, benefits were excellent, with lots of employee perks like free turkeys at Christmas, a holiday party every year, Bonuses, raffles for prizes (good prizes too) generous education benefits, etc...
Cons
The last three years have seen a sharp decline in the quality of the benefits. The company went self Insured with Cigna Managing the program. The health benefits are expensive and poor quality. They deven direct which Pharmacy we can use. My daughter requires allergy testing and insurance will cover NONE of it, I will have to pay it out of pocket (which I cannot afford to do and cannot afford not to do). The Turkeys are gone, they issue a $20.00 voucher for a Butterball turkey, what a joke. No holiday parties, no bonuses. Compensation rates are low as are raises for the last 3 years...DESPITE posting higher profits. There is a growing loss of confidence in the company management (I intentionally will not use the word Leadership as there is no longer any). The company is CONSTANTLY in some stage of reorganizing, either planning or waiting to do so, average Reorganization is once a year for the last 4 years. By the time everyone figures out the newest Org chart and where to go and who to report to...they announce they are changing it. If they want to save money get rid of all the extra management on overhead and the entire department that does Reorgs. I have stopped recommending BAE to my Military friends as a good post military employer. I have helped several comrades in arms secure positions here and have become increasingly embarrassed and ashamed for doing so. The rumors of a sale/merger to Boeing have been flying recently. While many of us used to dread such a thing there seems to be a general feeling that perhaps we would be better off without Linda Hudson. She is just stripping us down for a sale and we rather wish she would just get on with it.