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3.1

58% would recommend to a friend

(134 total reviews)

Howard Gussman

71% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Marvin Engineering has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 134 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Marvin Engineering 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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134 reviews
3.0
Jul 24, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Nice clean facility, good benefits package including Matching of 401K , lots of nice and intelligent people comprise most departments.

Cons

The company is not in-tune with current work-trends... Remote work was in place while it benefited them during the pandemic but they have essentially brought everyone back FT while CLAIMING one of their goals was to offer a good work/life balance. They have an archaic outlook believing that physical presence = better performance. But if morale is down and people are exhausted from the average of 1-2 hrs of AM traffic every single day and don't want to be there are you really getting the most out of people? NO! They didn't even want to offer hybrid schedules which is specifically the reason I left to work for another Aerospace company that offers remote options.. My commute is long BUT not having to do it EVERY DAY makes all the difference in my mental & physical well being. There were entirely too many meetings, I spent half my day in meetings to where I barely started my actual job until mid afternoon.. it was crazy... Overall, they were really into appearances, so long as everything LOOKED good no one seemed to really care about anything else... Lots of high paid management that avoids any real work or staff inclusion by being in meetings all day. Very management oriented, no one trusts your opinion or input unless you have Mgr or something higher in your title. Like they would ask you but CC your boss and 20 other people ( who also don't know) Lastly, parking or the lack thereof is a huge issue... If you're not a manager or above or haven't worked there for 20 yrs you may find yourself parking blocks away.

1.0
Jul 6, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

About the only redeeming things at Marvin is that it has very good and well maintained facilities.

Cons

Some senior management have the management skills of a box of nails. Never in my entire career have I been provided the minimalist of guidance and then been chastised for not completing an assessment to their satisfaction which included staffing recommendations. Never mind the fact that during the assessment which was less that 2 months in the position, I had both my team managers out due to covid-19 quarantine and two of five supervisors were also out due to covid-19 and broken ankle. Another element of contention was that I was not in agreement to terminating one of my managers. I proposed to let me work with the manager in hopes of turning him around. Once again this was held against me as if my boss didn't have a choice - he did accept my proposal or to not accept it. So why than hold that against me, if he truly wanted him terminated he should have said so. I didn't have a dog in this fight but I did want to be fair and give the manager that opportunity to correct his deficiencies - Something unfortunately that wasn't given to me. Additionally, much which I wish to have accomplished was frustrated due to the continuous and consistent absences and lack of HR support to fill badly understaffed departments. Furthermore, HR is very dysfunctional something I brought up to my boss as the BCT process was very poorly executed which caused much additional work absences due to uncoordinated and ineffective communications between HR, the team member and the departmental management. Company uses the 6 month probation period as a hammer as opposed to a mechanism in which to mentor and coach the team member on how to overcome any perceived deficiencies especially where none were communicated beforehand and prior to being let go... No transparency. Very poor management.

2.0
Jan 7, 2019

Program Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

An enormous backlog, excellent health care.

Cons

Nonexempt workers treated as hourly. You can work a lot of overtime, but are limited to 3 days personal leave per year. If you work 6hrs and leave for 2 to visit Dr, you are charged 2 hrs personal leave, even though you exceed 40 hrs for the week. Very high turnover in mid level management.

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