SAESL Reviews

2.8

22% would recommend to a friend

(283 total reviews)

Simon Middlebrough

49% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

SAESL has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 283 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The SAESL employee rating is 23% below average for employers within the Aerospace and defence industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
3 May 2024

Think thrice before applying

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits but the benefits doesn’t compensate for the things you do

Cons

If you ever think about joining base on those news and happy looking faces on all the reports that are showing online, I would highly recommend you look away. Unless you’re willing to sacrifice your $, your blood, your tears. Just culture? It doesn’t exist in this company. Sure, they’ll dig deep into the investigation, just to say ‘no bonus for you due to this’ when everyone clearly knows, higher management are desperate for their KPIs which result in negligence towards their employee welfare as well as their quality of product. You can only do well if you’re sitting on the desk in operations. 3-4 TEAM LEADERS is a total waste of manhours, Forcing technicians to rush through job during normal shift hours just to get those extra manhours to come in OT and do ‘planning’ and ‘paperwork’, but laughters is all you’ll hear. Toxic workplace to work in if you’re keen on progressing in this company where technician voices aren’t heard / shut down even to own department ‘leaders’. Don’t expect help from those ‘leaders’ because you’ll be marked. Pay? MacDonald earning higher. 5 years of blood and tears - $11.5 per hour. You guys do the maths yourself before applying.

1.0
2 June 2022

Don't get scammed into signing their bonds

Recommend
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Pros

- Company will take immediate action against issues like workplace bullying or harassment -Most skills needed for the job are quite easy to pick up with some practice -Good for people who are looking for a simple career without the need to go out of their way to impress since promotions are time gated behind years of working experience and mostly guaranteed as long as you have clocked the required number of hours. -There's still a small number of people in the company that is willing to nurture newcomers if they can see your eagerness to learn.

Cons

-Low basic pay, entire salary structure basically revolves around maxing out your overtime hours and giving up on having any life outside of work at all. - Management decides to set unreasonable targets despite lack of manpower and extremely high turnover rate causing the remaining staff to all be overworked. -When company cannot hit their targets due to lack of manpower, management decides to change shift timings, forcing everyone to work longer hours against their will, instead of fixing the manpower problem. -Extremely low increment amounts on top of already low base salary means that the wage gap between you and your peers working elsewhere will only get wider the longer you stay here. -Current company hiring model to deal with low manpower is a cycle of mass hiring trainees with no work experience and bonding them to the company for years so that they cannot leave no matter how they feel, eventually the dissatisfaction piles up and most trainees leave the moment their bonds end, taking whatever skill they learnt with them and the company is back to square one. At the same time, most of the workers with experience are old and close to retirement, and once this group of people leave there will be a lack of competent trainers to teach the never ending cycle of trainees that come and go. -Alarmingly high number of incompetent people in senior positions that barely even know what they are doing. -Management only cares about work output and nothing else. Lots of dissatisfaction on the ground level but zero effort is being put in to retain staff, resulting in competent staff taking their skills and getting jobs elsewhere, while many of those that remain are being overpaid to do basically nothing, and push their responsibilities to the juniors while putting on a show for their superiors.

1.0
5 May 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Hybrid but required to work very very very long hours even when sick or die.

Cons

Everything is manual very much depending on Excel. Not a Diverse organisation, no practice of Equity, not a place of Belonging. Unethical Vice President HR lack of legislation and it's local human management experience. CEO should be involved and be aware of all the action. Highest resignation every month.

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