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      General Dynamics Mission Systems

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      General Dynamics Mission Systems reviews

      3.8

      66% would recommend to a friend

      (1,871 total reviews)
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      Chris Brady

      67% approve of CEO

      63% positive business outlook

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      General Dynamics Mission Systems has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,871 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The General Dynamics Mission Systems 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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      2K reviews
      3.0
      Jan 12, 2011

      Advancement and project mobility limited.

      Lead systems engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      GDAIS creates good products and has some exciting programs. They are process driven and produce better quality than other places I have worked. Although it varies depending on your project and manager, generally they place high value on work-life balance. Flexible schedule allowing you to take every other Friday off is excellent. Generally nice environment to work - nice building and friendly people. Pay is competative.

      Cons

      Promotions/advancement hard to come by for more senior technical people. Company is pushing to make its workforce younger. Information needed to accomplish tasking is often compartmentalized and difficult to obtain. Mobility allowing you to work on other programs is quite limited. Recognition for sometimes herculean efforts is often not there. Had to threaten to quit to get promoted with a pay raise.

      4.0
      Jan 9, 2011

      Good place for a real career

      Principal engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Work is high tech programs, mostly for Defense and NASA. Several GD divisions are at this site, so there are opportunities to move to different types of programs without having to relocate. Work and Life balance is very good -- overtime is usually limited to a few crunches to complete a big milestone and then it's back to 40 hour weeks for quite a while. Some programs are on a 9 day/80 hour schedule that gives you every other Friday off, too. The managers are really decent people: if you need to take a few unplanned days off, like when a family member is in the hospital, they don't ask you why you missed work for that -- instead they want to know if your family member if OK and if you came back to work too fast because you could work from home for a while. Pay is good, tho raises tend to be small -- but even during this bad recession, GD has been doing some hiring, and employees have been getting raises every year. Other local high tech companies have been laying employees off and making their staff take pay or benefit cuts -- but not at GD. Job security is very good, as DoD work isn't being outsourced -- as most other American high tech jobs are. You can feel like you are making a real contribution as a citizen in this work, as most of the programs are upgrading products and developing new systems for our military, space communications and homeland security. For example, GD C4S division in Scottsdale is installing a system right now all along our coastline that helps the Coast Guard pinpoint the exact location of boaters in trouble, to ensure speedy rescue -- so this work is directly saving lives.

      Cons

      Like the situation at many large companies, an employee's hard work may be overlooked when your manager does not take the time to identify which employees are most productive. Younger employees may not receive early promotions to reward exceptional work, as it is easier for many managers to just promote staff based on "years of service" vs. performance. There are cash bonusses available to reward good work -- but again, it depends on whether your boss takes the time to do the paperwork and identify deserving staff. So some groups regularly get cash rewards -- and other groups with a different manager, don't get these bonusses. At GD you need to tell your boss when you have done something exceptional, rather than counting on your manager to find it out. If you keep management up to date on what you are doing and when you have done great work, you are more likely to be rewarded. Regarding upper management, GD does need to be more agressive about pursuing new business. GD has backed off from a few pursuits that we could have won because management seems to be only pursuing the "sure bets." With government spending on Defense starting to slow down and less programs being funded, GD needs to go after all the new programs it can credibly do.

      4.0
      Oct 20, 2010

      Good

      Gdais
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great Company to work for. Helped alot of people move into Gov. positions.

      Cons

      Lost lots of recent contracts with the Gov.

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