General Dynamics Mission Systems reviews

Being under the GD corporate umbrella has put a lot of pressure on the company to perform. Unfortunately, the corporation reports to stockholders and only asks what have you done for me lately. This is of course short-sighted, so while we have helped buoy the corporation during lean times in other groups, now we are drastically limiting IRADs, laying off good employees and thereby planning to fail. This is a tough environment with sequestration, but the way layoffs are being handled is dehumanizing. Management set themselves apart by stopping company-wide participation in the company's success while continuing to reward themselves with bonuses.

The company is unstable due to being unprepared to handle sequestration (which everybody know about years in advance), management is thrashing about trying anything that does not require real change or does not endanger the status quo of the upper management itself; it is a traditional who you know and who your friends are, not your ability to do your job that gets you ahead here.