Your mileage may vary, your pay won't - Intermediate Member of Technical Staff MDA Employee Review

Pay sucks, some departments are extremely bored and underutilized while others are overworked and burnt out. The engineers are unionized and negotiations are extremely stressful whenever they occur. The company doesn't think we're worth a fair wage and upper management is awful, taking a 20% pay raise and telling employees tough luck when asking for a raise to alleviate the effects of inflation. I've never had a 1:1 with my manager. He has no idea what I actually do. I was promised challenging technical work and was given documentation to do. People are extremely unproductive. Most work an actual 2-3 hours per day and the rest is wasted time, either due to useless meetings or socialization. The software systems used are extremely outdated and frustrating. Rumors speculate we'll be going back to 5 days in office once we move in the new year. They refuse to give an actual reason why we need to be in 3 days a week at the moment when most employees agree it's harming their productivity. Brampton also sucks for commuting. There's also a train track that basically blocks the entire area for 20ish minutes if you get unlucky timing when you leave work.