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General Dynamics Electric Boat

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Come for the resume booster, leave for a better job - Mechanical Engineer II General Dynamics Electric Boat Employee Review

1.0
15 Oct 2019
Recommend
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Pros

-Interesting design problems -Great views of the water -Attractive starting salary -A lot of people fresh out of college, very social atomosphere

Cons

-Parking is just terrible. Management says they have it figured out. Well if its figured out so nicely, then why don't YOU park in the water street garage and give up your reserved spot next to the building? -Company reports signing multi-billion dollar contracts and having their best year ever and then cries the blues at raise time saying they are tight on money. -Cutbacks, cutbacks, cutbacks. No more tuition reimbursement program, no paid sick time, no time and a half for overtime anymore. -Toxic relationship between designers and engineers. Engineers aren't allowed to work on models and designers make their own design decisions based on their "experience" with no calculated reasons. -Terrible attrition rate. Its like a revolving door of people being hired and leaving a year later, so that should tell you something.

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5.0
19 June 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance. Valued member of the department

Cons

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1.0
17 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

This is a last resort job if you can’t find anything else

Cons

The processes and systems in place to get the job done is dismal. There is no official training for the job role. If you make suggestions and try to be helpful you are seen as a threat by management. There is rarely any cross functional communication. It feels like they want things to take a long time and be wrong so that they can charge the govt. more money. (Bc every task you do will have a charge number). Most long timers at the company don’t care about the work being done inefficiently either, bc they have a reason for overtime. Very weird corporate politics / favoritism. (I have never seen it as bad as it is here). Parking is terrible at every location.

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