Employees Beware - Graphical Applications Designer BAE Systems USA Employee Review

HR is there to protect the company, not the employee. Unless someone in leadership makes a complaint, everyone else is basically ignored. I have been gone from BAE for about 2 years, but decided to wait to write a review so I could be more objective once all the emotions had died down. I worked at BAE for 5 years, and never once did I get a promotion, despite earning my Master's degree during my time being employed. I did, however, get a pay raise 2 days after they laid off 5 people.... which seemed sketchy. In my time at BAE I had 2 horrible managers. The first would say things about team members behind their back, share personal information about other team members, and share way too personal not work related information with employees. She was emotionally unstable and would often burst into tears in weekly staff meetings. My next manager was useless and clearly didn't know how to work with women. He would ignore feedback, ask for suggestions but only put into action those suggested by men, and seemed to have no real interest in the team as people, what their individual talents were and how we could utilize them to make projects and processes better, what they were working on, etc. Every one-on-one meeting that I had with him (which he insisted on weekly), he would spend the whole hour telling me about how his android cell phone camera was better than my iPhone camera. It felt like the meeting was a checkbox he needed to complete so he decided to just spend the time telling me about how he was better than me. Ageism is also a very real thing at BAE. I watched an amazing co-worker who was in her early 20's get laid off as a sacrificial lamb during a department layoff of mostly 60-year-olds, just so they couldn't all band together and claim ageism.