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
5.0
Dec 1, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The work here is both challenging and rewarding. Management is very clear that they expect 50 hours a week of quality work, but there is so much interesting work to do, it feels like that time flies by. The people are engaged and talented, and there overall is just a really good culture of getting things done and doing it right.

Cons

The work can be challenging, and the hours can be long, at times. But overall, I find that the work is interesting enough to outweigh the amount work.

4.0
Nov 18, 2025

review

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

lots of work, nothing is ever boring. Cool products

Cons

Product reliability is a constant struggle, and the company has lots of growing to do before it could take on big defense primes

1.0
Nov 11, 2025

Terrible Management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There’s much to learn from other engineers and developers, I think a lot of people are initially drawn to the pace / mission / opportunity and there’s some good talent there. I think the company will survive for some time due to military ties and funding, but who knows after that

Cons

Management is pretty bad. Constant mixed signals / directives and that only leads to frustration. Emphasis on putting in hours vs actually doing novel and advanced work (I question the technology too, but that’s a different story). Lots of talent is and will continue to leave. Culture is also pretty bad, lots of guys pretending to be hardos but not actually contributing.

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