Not A Great Company - ENGINEER-1 HII Employee Review

2.0
1 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- It is easy to get a clearance and a head start in DoW work. - Benefits are not too shaby, and you get good coverage. - Got pretty good support from team and product quality was high. - Excellent work-life balance although it isn't too common within the rest of the departments.

Cons

- Very low pay. - If you work in Newport News it is not a great location to live in. - Management is cool for the most part unless you get on their bad side. - Layoffs are frequent and at this current moment in time there is a lack of work. - Not a lot of real growth opportunities as I was ghosted from a hiring manager for an internal transfer which is pretty ridiculous. - HR only favors management and will not help in any situation.

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2.0
18 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote Work, Flex Schedule, Benefits are decent enough.

Cons

It is very much a boys club between management, leads, and HR. HR is there to protect the company, not you. The moment you have something crazy happen (and you will because most people in positions of power are old retired navy guys who cant even work a computer usually and would rather praddle on about "the good ole days") and you report it to HR, you immediately will be retaliated against, even when HR says you wont. Its tough to say how you wont when they immediately inform your supervisor. I also hate how they are an "inclusive" company, and yet I have been called more slurs and received more backlash for being LGBT when its not even being presented, I just want to log in, work, ask questions, log off.

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