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A Good Starter Job - Systems Engineer General Dynamics Electric Boat Employee Review

2.0
Apr 23, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

You'll work on a unique product. Some supervisors are fantastic. Some flexibility and remote work. Competent engineers get to work on interesting products and often get extra responsibility. If you plan to be here under 5 years you can use it to build up experience for an engineer. For a designer (union job, doesn't require a degree) it's great until the layoffs)

Cons

Senior management (director and above) dont care about retaining engineers causing a worse product, and a loss of technical knowledge and competenct personnel. Cost cutting is already happening (they even stopped paying higher level engineer overtime) which isn't indicative of a good future. It's a slow changing company which hasn't kept up with most trends or business technology since the 90s (time keeping is still on a DOS system). It's run like a company from the twentieth century without the matching pensions. Many managers are perfect examples of the Peter Principle. Good and bad employees see no financial differential - which incentivises poor performance. Bonuses aren't based off personal performance, but the whole organization so you performance doesn't matter for the small semi-annual bonus checks. The cherry on top is you can even park at the office, and the offices are poorly maintained.

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5.0
Jun 19, 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance. Valued member of the department

Cons

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1.0
Jun 17, 2026
Anonymous employee
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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