Shield AI reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(193 total reviews)
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Gary Steele

75% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Shield AI has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 193 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shield AI 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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193 reviews
3.0
Aug 28, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Really, truly, excellent engineers and teammates. Could not ask for better people to work with on a daily basis.

Cons

Things were great a year ago, but starting in Jan 2024, leadership made it clear they want to model company culture based on Tesla or SpaceX, in that they expect all employees to live for their job and have no life outside of work. It's not sustainable, it's counter-productive, and it's the reason I ended up leaving - I have seen so many of my teammates get worn down and burned out by meaningless deadlines and half-baked projects that ended up being scrapped anyways.

2.0
May 26, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The below director level employees are the best, super smart and driven

Cons

I was hired to do one thing, within a week was asked to do something I had no experience doing (I was clear about this throughout the hiring process), did not get the resources to or support to succeed. Add to that 4 different managers in a year with the fourth not reviewing the stellar reviews I had up until they took over. Finally lots of fear of the CEO - he'll ask for something, and no one will tell him that it isn't smart, or feasible in the timeframe demanded. Lost my job with no notice, in a reorganization, I found out when I went to my scheduled one on one with my manager, and was told to move to a conference room, where there was a HR rep who immediately took my computer and badge. Then was basically frog-marched out of the building.

1.0
Jan 22, 2023

Do not recommend

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The compensation is competitive for San Diego. Interesting tech…but is it ethical? Probably not.

Cons

-Nepotism (heads of teams are best friends with leadership or related to them, and they don’t have experience to lead teams) -No diversity (are you a woman or a person of color? you won’t get support here) -Managers don’t know what they’re doing (either from lack of experience or lack of direction from their leadership and they don’t want to rock the boat) -No work life balance (have to work 80+ hours a week and people love to talk about how busy they are)

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