Senior Engineer - Senior Control Systems Engineer General Dynamics Electric Boat Employee Review

In general: PTO is not great, health plan is expensive, tuition reimbursement is essential nonexistent, parking is the worst I've ever seen, upper management does not care about the skills or feelings of their employees, you are watched like a hawk for clocking in and out (yes, full-time salaried engineers have a time clock here). In my 5 years at Electric Boat the benefits have deteriorated. When I started we were paid overtime, had parking at the New London facility, had ample sick time, PPO health plan, great tuition reimbursement. As of today the vacation policy was changed to remove sick time and paid paternity/maternity leave to PTO, parking is so bad that unless you arrive by 6:00am you are walking over a mile into work, the only available health insurance plan is a high deductible one and the tuition reimbursement for new hires is awful. The parking situation is so bad that most employees discuss it at least 1 hour each and every day. The PTO change resulted in many people coming to work with a cold or even the flu because time off is very valuable. The tuition policy used to allow engineers to enroll in an approved program and get a degree paid for by the company. Now, the amount per class they will cover is limited unless you have been at the company over 4 years before you start. It seems to be a system in place to assist those with no degree or to keep people locked in to the company for longer. So if you are coming out of college and want to pursue an advanced degree I would advise against choosing Electric Boat. Upper management really only cares about meeting arbitrary dates on a schedule and they pay way too much attention to the "time clock." Upper management doesn't value employee skills or abilities and views everyone as a "number." A few members of my immediate management were taken to HR by no less than 6 employees for bullying tactics and harassment (both sexual and non-sexual) and they are still in management roles performing the same jobs they did before. You can work 80 hours for 4 weeks straight to get a job done then work 39 hours another week and get scolded, harshly, for not putting in 40 hours. You can work 40 hours each and every week surfing the internet and get the same raise as someone who works 80 hours a week churning out product after product (maybe the raise will differ by 1%...maybe). Many experienced, senior level, employees have left and upper management did absolutely nothing to keep them: no raise, no promotion, not even a pat on the back. Lower management is highly inexperienced and incompetent. Most people are in management because they are "friends" with someone above them and got promoted to it. Nearly every supervisor is not qualified and almost every manager is just there as a stepping stone. They are out of touch with what real engineering is and really only care about meeting fake dates on a schedule. You are discouraged from transferring departments to the point where upper management will actively "lock" you into your current position not allowing you to try something else. Electric Boat is so desperate to hire people that as long as you have some kind of engineering or related degree you will get a job here. This results in a lot of people being here that can't count the number of fingers on their hands but will get promoted to management eventually anyway. I would highly recommend anyone thinking about applying here to heavily reconsider unless you meet one of the following criteria: - you have no other job opportunities - you are head over heels in love with southeast CT - you are near to retirement and want something stable for your last few years