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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

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
1.0
May 28, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The people that do care do wonderful work. Always liked the location of the Scottsdale campus. Inexperienced workers will get hired pretty easily to replace those older workers who've been let go. Facilities at Scottsdale campus seem to be going through a facelift, which is needed.

Cons

Management fostered an environment of finger-pointing within projects. If something went wrong during testing and integration, change requests were written against you whether the problem was with your part or not. Middle management doesn't care to get to know the workers under them. Layoffs occur every few months, but in small numbers so that local media never reported on it. Morale was low because everyone heard of a new layoff occurring every other month. GD will rush to hire new employees fresh out of school to replace the more experienced employees they laid off just a few weeks before. Top management only cares about the bottom line. In their quarterly earnings email. Employees were not only shown how GDC4 was doing in their benchmarks, but they also highlighted what projects were being single out for blame.

2.0
May 27, 2013

GDAIS

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Talented work force. Friendly atmosphere.

Cons

Lack of vision from Senior Leadership.

2.0
May 26, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Flexible work schedule - Real smart technical folks - Travel opportunities

Cons

- Excessive layers of management result in less than effective communications and excessive meetings/e-mails just to tackle small technical challenges/issues. - As DoD budgets continue to shrink, mid and upper level managers get excessively and unnecessarily involved in low-level technical efforts (micromanagement)...in attempts to justify their existence, leaving technical folks feeling uncreative and disenfranchised. - Amount of time spent engineering equals 10 - 20 % while amount of time writing Powerpoint presentations for management or technical "how to" documents is 80 - 90 %. - Minimum training opportunities, unless you're in the inner circle.

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