Worst place I ever worked - Software Engineer Lead L3Harris Employee Review

1.0
Jul 26, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. The vacation is decent but unlimited is just so then don’t have to pay out. Honestly there are not many good things to say about this place. Especially in PSPC. It is just a disaster.

Cons

1. Management is horrendous and unethical. They don’t care about field issues unless the customer is big. 2. Company does not use or understand Agile/Scrum. Managers are too set in there ways to do things differently. 3. Information Technology department is incompetent. You can wait several months for things and then they won’t be done right. It is impossible to get any work done with all the restrictions and it keeps getting worse. They have their hands in way too much and you can’t get any work done. 4. If you are good/competent you are expected to do several jobs. There are not enough people to do the work but they certainly have enough managers. 5. The performance improvement plan can take up to two years . Company doesn’t know how to hire or fire. 6. There are some extremely smart senior engineers here but there are also a bunch of senior engineers undeserving of the title. 7. The deadlines are unrealistic and the managers do not know how to properly plan and execute a project. 8. The outsourcing movement is ridiculous. Maybe learn from the first several times projects cost too much money and failed. Will do anything to save a buck. 9. Management does not back up their employees and will make decisions just to benefit themselves. 10. Some of the tools they want you to use to do your job don’t even work correctly for modern day projects . Too many overlapping tools and many of them are complete garbage. Management will not fight to fix these issues. 11. High level engineers and managers swear at each other and get into fights. It is like kindergarten for adults. 12. When you tell yourself it can’t possibly get any worse it does... 13. Compensation doesn’t match the unorthodox amount of jobs they want you to do. Meanwhile the incompetent ones get away with doing nothing. Good people get overworked and stressed here. 14. There are so many lies and management is always changing their mind. 15. Politics are so bad it is impossible to get any real work done.

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L3Harris Response
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Thank you for your feedback. Providing a culture where our employees have every opportunity to perform their best is very important to us at L3Harris, and we are sorry to see that this was not the experience for you. However, I want to directly address the first item in your 'Cons' list. We take our commitment to ethics very seriously here at L3Harris, which why we provide multiple channels for employees to report in good faith any perceived ethical concerns. These channels include but are not limited to their manager, an Ethics Advisor, a HR team member, and even a third-party hotline. Should you want to share the ethical concerns you mentioned, please contact our Ethics & Compliance Helpline (www.L3HarrisHelpline.com or 877-532-6339).

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