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All the cons of DoD, and getting worse - Systems Engineer General Atomics Employee Review

2.0
Feb 12, 2022
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Pros

Pros: -personally I thought my salary was pretty good, includes a small %-based yearly bonus -work is really easy and mundane -good work life balance, 9/80s...you can basically just show up and collect your paycheck

Cons

cons: -really depressing, everyone is complacent and does the bare minimum -work is not valued, no recognition. often feel invisible -no upward growth, personally or career wise -no emphasis on training or improvement of your work -bad processes all around, basic things require a lot of work -anyone who is actually valuable is overworked and generally unavailable if you need them -really awful communication and cohesiveness between similar groups. 3 different teams could be working on the same thing and no one would know. -more focus on hitting deliverables rather than any quality of product -feels like a sinking ship lately -handled covid pretty poorly, forced an early return to office and then seems like they just ceased all communications about it

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Talented engineers Excellent manager 9/80 work schedule

Cons

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Cons

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