Shield AI reviews

3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(193 total reviews)
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Gary Steele

77% approve of CEO

69% 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
5.0
Oct 11, 2023

Growing and Caring

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Pros

This company is still growing rapidly and I believe the mission of the company and how it holds to its core beliefs is what is driving success. The work being done feels important for sure

Cons

Everyone is hustle and bustling and it's fairly easy to get isolated to just the small sector you're working on

1.0
Sep 13, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Noble mission, some talented engineers

Cons

Like others, I ignored some bad reviews here because I was excited by the opportunity to work on new technology and to do something meaningful for my country. Over 2 and a half years, I came to be deeply disappointed in both the technology and the vision. At first I thought the HR problems were the result of inexperience, but, over time, I came to see that there was something deeply toxic in the company's treatment of people. I'm a cis-man, but even I could see that women are treated poorly, and there is no diversity. People who are dedicated are let go for reasons I can't determine. Repeatedly, I saw the failure of impossible and misconceived projects blamed on solid engineers who put in insane hours trying to meet deadlines that were invented to please senior management. This treatment of people isn't accidental, either; this company is unethical to its core. I wish it could be what they market it to be, but a company that lies so consistently to its employees also lies about its product. At base, the product can't do what it claims to do, and no one in the technical chain of management is competent enough to understand this. There are very talented engineers at the middle and senior level, but they're hamstrung by the direction coming from senior management. I had significant equity and experience in software engineering and technology management, and I was really excited to work here. I ignored all the negative reviews on Glassdoor - if you're entertaining an offer, I hope you'll learn from my mistake and think twice about this company. Management will lie to your face; you will work extended hours for nothing because upper management really has no clue what they are doing, and they are unwilling to listen.

2.0
Sep 3, 2023
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Pros

The product idea is interesting, but many other defense companies are way ahead. Nothing “special” about the product.

Cons

Before coming here I read a lot of negative reviews and decided to ignore them thinking they were most biased reviews from a small few of disgruntled employees. But now I realize that’s 99% of the employee base. Biggest mistake of my life was coming to this company. The executives use patriotism as an excuse to treat employees like poorly. The middle managers are lying out of their teeth to save their own careers, but lack the technical competence to manage. The product is is decades behind other industry leaders, even China. The organizational technical architecture is terrible, some of the worst I’ve seen in many years. The culture has some real issues; horribly toxic for a working woman. If you have kids you won’t have any time to spend 10 minutes with your kids or bring parents to hospital. You record your timed on 15 minute increments, and the executives have asked teams doing 80 hour a week should be upped to 100 hours a week on average. And please note - any feedback you provide will be held against you on future reviews, even if they “say” it’s anonymous. They are actively using polls to try and weed out all the people who are posting negative reviews on indeed and blind, don’t be fooled. HR is also extremely unhelpful for almost any issue I have brought up to them.

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