So much potential - Anonymous employee Mercury Systems Employee Review

3.0
Oct 22, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There's so much potential for growth in Mercury's business - it's amazing to observe as an employee. Mercury is truly a one of a kind for the defense industry.

Cons

Mercury rolls out tools like Confluence with absolutely ZERO training. You're expected to use the tools to help management micro-manage every aspect of your work. This creates even more work for you as an employee that does not make you more efficient. Much the opposite, it slows you down as you have to do things multiple times and report progress using multiple different tools. There is absolutely no correlation between performance and pay. Work really hard? Work long hours? Work more efficiently than others? Congratulations on your 3% merit increase while your lazy coworker who contributes nothing but sucks up to management very well also gets 3%. Mercury is a company that gets things done through a series of diving catches. If you participate in a diving catch, you are rewarded. If you plan ahead and prevent a diving catch from being needed in the first place - expect to get criticized/scrutinized. Mercury rewards diving catches and a lack of planning.

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Mercury Systems Response
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We appreciate your candid feedback. Thank you for posting a review on Glassdoor. Over the past year, we have been rolling out a number of tools that are all designed to help us all work more effectively and efficiently. Examples are Skype for Business, more automated HR systems in the works and the Atlassian Suite- including Confluence. We have also been implementing improved networking and connectivity at certain sites, revamped our facilities and much more. All aimed at providing a better work environment. With that said, we can always do more on training and enablement. As always, the best direct course of action is to speak to your immediate manager on this to help provide additional training you feel you may need. We know there is a learning curve for newer tools and initial training can sometimes take some time. So again, please reach-out to your direct manager. On the subject of merit increases we work very hard at Mercury to provide meaningful merit increases and our salary benchmarking indicates we are very competitive in our compensation structure. We call it Total Rewards and it includes, but is certainly not limited to base salary. Again, it is always best to have a conversation with your immediate supervisor on these matters but we do appreciate and value the feedback.

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