Pros
Extremely interesting industry Great values, you are there to save people’s lives. You feel rewarded with your work. Great improvements possible An industry that gather some of the most passionate professional I have ever met CEO is a gentleman and overall I would say that executives are quite knowledgeable Proudly Canadian
Cons
Despite the amazing enthusiasm of some for the engineering and flying the industry is driven by fossils that love status quo. In order to face that CAE created a new section called digital accelerator, please make yourself a favor and stay away from that, it’s a trap. The middle management (VP and director level) is totally infected by politics, no challenge possible, people with very poor soft skills, unnecessarily rudeness and bullying behaviour. Some directors work 12+ hours per day and they expect you do the same, weekends? Forget that! Extremely, extremely long hours. A culture of “don’t even think you can challenge me” rules over CAE like the bubonic pest. Unskilled people on key roles are basically positioned because their connections with vp’s instead their own capabilities. People live in a constant fear of losing their jobs if they look or say something that they shouldn’t. They claim that they empower people, that is a vicious lie, they do the absolute opposite! no empowerment of teams, but a dictatorial environment creating toxic “yes man” employees and unfortunately helping to augment the huge disconnection from executives of what is the reality of the employees. Without exaggeration: The worst work experience in my entire career.