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      BAE Systems reviews

      Machinist

      Machinist
      Current employee
      Barrow in Furness, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Job security, good pension, good holiday entitlement, share scheme, bonus each year

      Cons

      Slow ways of working, waste a lot of time and money as a company, not a good work culture

      1

      Good

      Naval architect
      Current employee
      London, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good pay and annual bonus

      Cons

      Not much fast growth, but eventually

      Decent benefits

      Engineering manager
      Current employee
      Barrow in Furness, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Decent benefits, annual bonus, share scheme

      Cons

      Slow progression, under performance accepted

      n/a

      Operation program manager (opm)
      Current employee
      Nashua, NH
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great place to work at

      Cons

      No yearly bonus handed out

      Nice place to work, benefits below industry

      Principal engineer
      Current employee
      Rockville, MD
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      I’m newer to the company but not the industry. That being said, the company has a vast amount of interesting work across different sectors. They are very supportive of what you want to do with your career. I see myself trying a different role perhaps outside of engineering.

      Cons

      I took the job not for the benefits, but despite the below industry benefits (U.S specific). Paltry PTO and holidays particularly for new hires. Christmas time shutdown is common in this industry but BAE says no. 401k very well below other defense primes and there are no performance based bonuses below very high level grades—I think maybe 14. Healthcare not as good and more expensive compared to where I was. Ultimately my base pay put me over the edge to join BAE but I’m finding they are cheap with their employees in many aspects of our total compensation.Im slightly optimistic it improves in the coming years but we shall see.

      3

      Low pay and rare promotions

      Senior system engineer
      Current employee
      San Diego, CA
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Every other Friday off is nice

      Cons

      Expect 3% raises each year and 4 if you’re lucky. If you have a parent working here, you’ll climb fast.

      Good place to work but salary structure needs updating

      Engineering manager
      Current employee
      Warton, Lancashire, Lancashire, North West England, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great opportunities to work on some fantastic products and with some really great people. Good work life balance and flexibility with hybrid working

      Cons

      Salary structure needs an overhaul from top to bottom. Annual variance in pay rises between lower levels (professional and manual staff) and middle management (executives) is consistently a cause for concern for those in middle management roles as the executive reward package degrades year on year when compared with those in the professional and manual roles who are represented by a union, therefore generally receive higher percentage salary increases and also receive paid overtime, despite generally working fewer hours than executives on average. However, executive bonus scheme is pretty good - although as per most company bonus schemes it is wholly dependent on company financial targets and individual performance.

      1

      Engineering Manager

      Design engineering manager
      Current employee
      Sydney
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Interesting work, generally good people and projects.

      Cons

      Pay is at lower end of the scale for the industry

      Pros and Cons

      Service desk analyst
      Current employee
      Kuala Lumpur
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Fully work from home job

      Cons

      Yearly less salary increment and bonus

      Chaotic management

      Solutions architect
      Former contractor
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      None really, very difficult place to work for

      Cons

      Chaotic management, renews people for a coming year, signs new contract and then pulls it a week later. They don’t know what they’re doing from one minute to the next.