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General Dynamics reviews

3.4

50% would recommend to a friend

(830 total reviews)
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Phebe N. Novakovic

66% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

General Dynamics has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 830 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The General Dynamics 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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830 reviews
1.0
Mar 8, 2014

If you are a Frat Boy this one is for you

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Has Government contracts only because they bought the companies with the contracts

Cons

All Frat boys in the leadership, if you are not one of them you will never get anywhere.

4.0
Feb 25, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

They provide great life-work balance, Flex-80 is like a 9/80 schedule but they allow you to make up missed time over 2 weeks to minimize PTO. It’s very nice to have some freedom of when you work (starting and leaving) providing you hit the critical meetings and support your projects. There are some great, smart talented people that work here and interacting with them is a real pleasure. The pay and 401K match is average but not outstanding.

Cons

It wasn’t first apparent, but with the decline of the government work/contracts you can begin to see the dis-functionality of upper management. The company is run like an upside-down pyramid. It’s normal to cut lower level employees and engineers to an extent, but when 50+% of the work force are cut, and not one manager above the engineering level is affected what does that mean? How could that possibly be related to horrendous overhead rates?!? (Note sarcasm) If you are an engineer you will be part of a “caste” system. There is a clear hierarchy that is not as apparent between departs as it is shown by management… specific departs were “pay leveled” by management, while others were given assurances their department wouldn’t get hit. – This makes sense based on your business model and technical products, but don’t claim to function as a “team” when there are clear favorites. (I am trying to be unbiased – I did NOT get pay adjusted)

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