Stable company with growth potential but slow processes - Manager Thales Employee Review

4.0
7 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Stable, growing with the increased defence spending. Large company, lots of options to move internally. Many people have long tenures (10+ years) which speaks well of it. It is really many companies under one umbrella. Culture, tooling, methods will vary greatly across different business units.

Cons

Slow and bureaucratic - changes are set across the entire multi-national company. Customized at the local level, but set from HQ. Tooling is a mix of internally developed tools, and large partnerships. Security is a key selling point, but slows everything down. Hard to share information, hard to connect services, etc. Very 'old school' in it's approach - waterfall methodogies.

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5.0
12 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great company culture, good mix of rigor and relaxed

Cons

Could be more generous in order to keep talented employees

1.0
15 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

*This only applies to the Montgomeryville location* None. Used to be a great place to work. I enjoyed the work I did and the various teams I worked with.

Cons

*This only applies to the Montgomeryville location* -Health benefits have gotten worse each year. -Constant layoffs. -Changed from an 8 hour 3 shift day, 5 days a week to a 10 hour 2 shift day, 4 days out of the week. The idea was to save money on overtime, then they started asking the employees to stay the 4 hours between shifts. Then they started asking the employees to work the extra 3 days. Then they made the employees sign a waiver, making the 3 days mandatory when needed. -Flat raises, everyone gets the same raise. -Lower management no longer cares -Upper management is too focused on vanity projects or no longer cares

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