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BWX Technologies

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Good opportunities, decent pay, managed poorly, executives are out of touch with reality. - Engineer 2 BWX Technologies Employee Review

2.0
Aug 21, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay is good for the area. Opportunity to progress in your career (i.e., get promoted and climb the corporate ladder). Opportunity to gain lots of different skills and experience. Paternity/Maternity leave is good.

Cons

1. The company is not serious about running efficiently or making lasting changes to the way the business is run. Products that require a couple days to manufacture take 6 years to leave the factory because of all the waiting/downtime/scheduling/administrative nonsense. 2. Knowledge retention. Job "hopping" is incentivized, so everyone changes jobs every couple of years, leaving lots of people who know little about what they're doing (i.e,, the employee knowledge base is wide but shallow). People with lots of experience are overlooked, so they leave their roles and all the knowledge gained is lost. 3. Too many rules and regulations; it's stifling. 4. Management prioritizes things that don't matter (non-production related work). A good deal of work assigned has no real value. Total waste of time. 5. Depending on the job, the workload can be excessive. Some people work the amount of 2-jobs and do so by working on weekends.

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BWX Technologies Response
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5.0
May 24, 2026
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Pros

I enjoy working here and hope to retire here in over three decades.

Cons

There are none, I've never had a better employer.

2.0
Jul 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pay, benefits, and going home at the end of shift are the only good thing about this job.

Cons

Supervisors don't communicate with each other. One hand doesn't know what the other is doing from shift to shift. If you're a woman or person of color, watch your back. Even though there's a union contract that should protect you, it's worthless. If they just don't like you or your political view, they'll fabricate reasons to get rid of you. There's a "salary vs hourly" resentment because hourly gets better pay and benefits through the union. Salary takes that out on hourly. When I was there, overtime wasn't mandatory. That's the only way to have a work life balance, is you get to chose when enough is enough. It's very much a "good old boys club" culture. They make a good show of trying to hire diversity candidates. Again, will find a way to get rid of them as they see fit. They didn't like when I spoke up and told them, it doesn't matter how many women they hire. If we aren't getting the same respect as our male counterparts, it doesn't mean anything. It's such a toxic work environment.

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