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General Dynamics Electric Boat

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Engineer II GDEB New London - Engineer Ll General Dynamics Electric Boat Employee Review

1.0
Feb 14, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

People for the most part are nice. Work can be interesting and challenging. Enjoy living by the water in Rhode Island. The union seems to take good care of its constituents. Great work life balance. Lots of work and good company outlook. No layoffs.

Cons

Parking is the worst, if you plan on commuting to work give up and live within walking distance. The town of New London seems to go out of their way to make life difficult for EB employees. Mountains of paperwork can discourage any productivity, for example a checklist for a checklist. Have seen diminishing benefits, raises, and overall perks. This includes a reduction in paying for grad classes. EB virtually pays nothing. Constant turn over in engineering staff. Working here will suck any passion you may have if life and leave you contemplating your life choices. Different group promote at different rates and compensation. There is a lack of seating, new hires will be floating in conference rooms and hallways until a vacancy is found. Not to mention a new hire may be without a computer for weeks. There is a culture of promoting solely on time spent at the company adding no benefit to working hard. Management has stopped all vacuuming done in offices. For engineering would recommend going somewhere else.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

This is a last resort job if you can’t find anything else

Cons

The processes and systems in place to get the job done is dismal. There is no official training for the job role. If you make suggestions and try to be helpful you are seen as a threat by management. There is rarely any cross functional communication. It feels like they want things to take a long time and be wrong so that they can charge the govt. more money. (Bc every task you do will have a charge number). Most long timers at the company don’t care about the work being done inefficiently either, bc they have a reason for overtime. Very weird corporate politics / favoritism. (I have never seen it as bad as it is here). Parking is terrible at every location.

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