Don't be afraid of hard work, but can lead to being burned out. Poor Work-Life balance. - Anonymous employee General Atomics Employee Review

3.0
Feb 23, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Relatively young company/operation focused maninly in the Defense Industry.

Cons

Private Company that has many non-standard (typical) ways of doing business.

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General Atomics Response
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You are correct. Two things: 1) Being privately held has allowed us to operate in a very entrepreneurial, sometimes surprising ways, but it’s delivered amazingly successful technologies. 2) We hear you. And we are aggressively upgrading and standardizing procedures that our growth now requires. Your patience is greatly appreciated.

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