Not the worst place to work, but refuses to Rise Above - Anonymous employee HII Employee Review

3.0
7 Sept 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Job security, pay is at average with the area (but slightly below the industry), 100% tuition reimbursement is an absolutely amazing benefit that not many employees will offer in a down economy.

Cons

Company pays for higher education but turns around and gives hiring preference to outsiders over employees. Job classification was ruined by Northrop Grumman. Now getting a job is 95% education, 5% experience. Knowing how to do the job is now less important than meeting a specific hiring metric. People who have been doing the same job for over a decade suddenly found themselves unqualified for their jobs and could not advance unless they went back to school, so lots of good experience goes to waste. Still have nepotism and good-ol-boy issues- new job titles are created for "preferred" individuals who don't meet the education requirement, so that they can do the same work and get the same money as the job they aren't qualified for. Oh, and.. P A R K I N G S U C K S!

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Cons

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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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