General Atomics reviews

* Tech stack terribly out of date. Refuse to use modern tools, frameworks, and development practices in favor of in-house tools that are just awful. * Painful and archaic software development process. If you want to work somewhere agile run far, far, away! * Practically no automated testing or CI/CD. * The experience you gain will have little relevance outside of other large defense contractors. * There is a good chance you will spend more time dealing with bureaucracy and red tape, writing emails, and dealing with terrible issue tracking tools than actual writing software. * Software Engineers end up doing more System Engineering than the actual System Engineers. * IT and DevOps support for software is practically non existent. Current "security" measures make life hell for developers. * Good Software Engineers either end up leaving or going into management. There are little incentives to stay on the technical route compared to other companies. * Your pay will most likely slightly below average and way below some of the big tech companies. * Upper management is oblivious to all of the above.

*Standard pay raise in 2022 is 5% points behind CPI in San Diego. *Post vaccine availability, company officially stopped any WFH as management has stated they don't trust engineers to get their work done. Opposition to 9/80 for years prior for the same reason, only relenting summer of 2022 because of high attrition and employee dissatisfaction. *Three layoffs in the last 18 months. *Lots of R&D projects that don't go anywhere. *Company reorgs every year or so. *Salaried, but also responsible for charging at least 40 hours a week to a customer. One person will be loaded up with 60-70 hours of work (while only getting compensated for 40) and down the hall someone else is forced to use vacation time because their management doesn't have 40 hours of work for them and overhead is "too tight".