The "OK Boomer"-est company on earth - Business Manager Cubic Employee Review

1.0
Dec 7, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

HR pays for the first three reviews to appear good. HR will also post reviews themselves to keep review score high and bury low scores. Do you enjoy quarterly lay-offs that rotate across business units? Execu-doublespeak in the form of incompetent statements like "Flexible engineering with 1 week to 3 month agile sprints in an adaptive waterfall model?" Death March project timelines, a BD group that oversells to the point of causing talented new management to leave, and a place where you can be praised for poor leadership decisions that cause worker over stress and punished for caring about your employees? Then Cubic and it's subsidiaries is the right place for you! As an added bonus if you're in the engineering skillset you are treated as though you are a non-union manufacturing floopr worker of "engineering widgets" so get ready to crank yourself to death!

Cons

Bullying - Older employees will simply override you, in front of others in meetings. A narcissistic cesspool of old age thinking and setting up silos. Do not work here if you are not Boomer or embody 21st century business ideals and leadership. Death march projects with no budge on timeline, dollars, or scope. Culture of "yes" to everything needed to "win the customer" but no mindset of ensuring it is also a win for the company, over commitance to contracts without the staff to deliver. Overwork, poor benefits, low pay, management that wants change yet refuses to change and try new things, a culture that touts they do great things for HR marketing but internally does not embody what they say to the world. Sexism, racism, and ageism - in the form of young people don't know anything, and ideas will only be crushed or stolen.

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In the end, my loyalty seemed to not be valued. My hard work showed and I met deadlines before the due date. Only called in sick when actually sick, and hardly took time off. The thing that bothered me the most was the way they laid me off. Group Teams video meeting, but the person giving us the news was not on video. Just a black screen, telling you that was your last day and that after that meeting your access will be cut off. And it was. I almost felt like an email would've been better than that black screen. That is really the only time I felt bad about the way things went. I know corporate life brings in the usual fiscal year layoffs, but it just felt wrong the way it was done, in my opinion.

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