Gulfstream reviews

Management manages by humiliation, fear, and intimidation. Do not present bad news such as tests failing.

Hands down, the most frustrating management structure I have ever dealt with out of the five aerospace location I have worked. Low level decisions go all the way to the top, where they are discussed in the perpetual meetings between the department heads, directors, and VPs. Directors continually spin status to an insane degree to make themselves look better in front of the VPs. This is how the Directors got to be Directors, though, because all the VPs want is people to tell them what they want to hear and agree with their decisions. The result is that tasking for the engineers actually doing the work frequently makes no sense, since the decision making process is so disconnected from reality. Engineering constantly operates in "fire drill mode". A good lead engineer or department head can sometimes compensate by serving a buffer between the engineers and the upper level managers, but the ones who are willing to do that tend to burn out or get fired (I saw both), so they don't last very long.