Terrible Management - Anonymous employee Shield AI Employee Review

1.0
11 Nov 2025
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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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

A majority of the company is filled with good-willed, nice, curious people across AI, aviation, geospatial, engineering and instructional spaces.

Cons

Too many of the operational decisions are made by sof guys with virtually zero experience in any of the fields relevant to the company...including strategic operations or even tactical isr. Too many has-beens used to working with no oversight. Money and equipment constantly disappearing. The company is like a toddler walking around in their parents clothes. Poor scaling. Almost non-existent safety considerations. Prior service in corporate is always something that needs to be addressed but the amount of sof guys this company employees just so they can put "elite" in every tagline is ridiculous. They complain constantly just to freeze or meltdown in the lightest stressful situations. Virtually unteachable so they are removed and elevated into positions that avoid that dynamic. We can't get people to stop being vindictive bigots every time they are corrected or called out for lying in a meeting to save our lives but we sure will platform the latest self-help garbage from some other hack of a seal because so-in-so met him once or likes his podcast.

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