General Atomics reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,979 total reviews)
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77% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

General Atomics has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,979 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The General Atomics employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Jul 1, 2022

Getting Better at Compensation but Needs a Culture Change

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Allowing more remote work Increase in compensation Good Benefits Good People to work with Leading Edge Technology/Product Job Security

Cons

A slow sinking ship that will eventually fail if it doesn't adapt... Schedule driven, where unnecessary risk is added to meet schedule and quality of product suffers because the main goal is to deliver something, Integrity with customer is failing There is no money or time to improve processes or correct mistakes...so the same mistakes keep getting made. Alot of tribal knowledge that gets lost if the one working on something leaves the company. This is in every level of the company. If you are a good engineer/producer you will be swamped with work and there is not enough people for all the work. Teams/programs are in organized in silos and don't communicate with each other so mistakes happen alot or things get worked in duplicate or not at all. Culture is...if it ain't broke don't fix it but there is no continuous improvement. There are money saving and efficiency opportunities that are not take advantage of.

1.0
Jul 1, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

-Company has a lot of smart people -They have their foot in the door on nuclear space contracts -Pension

Cons

-Bad pay -Only promote every 2 years -Recent lack of ability to get any big contracts -Recently laid off a lot of people without much consideration for whether these people were critical to contracts (they were) -Very few/poorly prepared employee engagement activities -No 9/80 (they are discussing it now finally) -No people my age (I am 26) -IT is almost completely unresponsive

2.0
Jul 1, 2022

Low Pay, poor morale, High turnover & lack of advancement

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The mission and projects; some of the coworkers and few management

Cons

Low Pay, poor morale, High turnover & lack of advancement. There is little reason to be a high achiever at this place and they reward mediocrity. Truly was a waste of many years there and overall, a disappointment really. High reduction in workforce due to financial problems which results in low raises and lack of training opportunities for advancement

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