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General Dynamics Mission Systems

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Advancement and project mobility limited. - Lead Systems Engineer General Dynamics Mission Systems Employee Review

3.0
12 Jan 2011
Recommend
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Pros

GDAIS creates good products and has some exciting programs. They are process driven and produce better quality than other places I have worked. Although it varies depending on your project and manager, generally they place high value on work-life balance. Flexible schedule allowing you to take every other Friday off is excellent. Generally nice environment to work - nice building and friendly people. Pay is competative.

Cons

Promotions/advancement hard to come by for more senior technical people. Company is pushing to make its workforce younger. Information needed to accomplish tasking is often compartmentalized and difficult to obtain. Mobility allowing you to work on other programs is quite limited. Recognition for sometimes herculean efforts is often not there. Had to threaten to quit to get promoted with a pay raise.

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Cons

Contractors 411: Typically, contracts terminated with no notice. Today will be your last day. Please wrap up your work. It was a very low-rate contract too. Made alot of sacrifices to be on this program. Culture resembled a human wood-chipper ala FARGO. Many senior engineers leaving en-mass. I was asked to take over the role of the engineer who left just prior to my arrival. I called it: I will be next. Good experience once in your life to go thru the human wood-chipper. Toughens you up. However, GD-MS is a great example of how it is that legacy aerospace companies are dying rapidly and startups will be the future in aerospace.

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