Challenging Company (work), Growing Pains - Principal Software Engineer Thales Employee Review

4.0
Jul 24, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The engineering team is good and has a lot of smart, hard working people. Everyone is driving towards the right goal and are, for 95% of the time ,working together and not against. There will be, like most companies, a few individuals you need to convince otherwise. The HR department keeps changing personnel, and this year's group is trying to do its best of organizing the workplace for better productivity.

Cons

IT department is lackadaisical. For one, they are too short staffed for the amount of IT issues that occur, and two there are a great deal of IT issues that take forever to fix. The workplace culture varies from year to year depending on which key personnel are in executive positions, but for the most part there always seems to a game of politics at play.

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5.0
Feb 12, 2026
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Pros

Great company culture, good mix of rigor and relaxed

Cons

Could be more generous in order to keep talented employees

1.0
Apr 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

*This only applies to the Montgomeryville location* None. Used to be a great place to work. I enjoyed the work I did and the various teams I worked with.

Cons

*This only applies to the Montgomeryville location* -Health benefits have gotten worse each year. -Constant layoffs. -Changed from an 8 hour 3 shift day, 5 days a week to a 10 hour 2 shift day, 4 days out of the week. The idea was to save money on overtime, then they started asking the employees to stay the 4 hours between shifts. Then they started asking the employees to work the extra 3 days. Then they made the employees sign a waiver, making the 3 days mandatory when needed. -Flat raises, everyone gets the same raise. -Lower management no longer cares -Upper management is too focused on vanity projects or no longer cares

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