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Pros
"Collegial work environment with a healthy mentoring culture" (in 27 reviews)
"Work-life balance is usually pretty healthy" (in 25 reviews)
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"COVID and adoption of work-from-home (or lack thereof) has revealed how out of touch upper management are with the rest of the industry" (in 14 reviews)
"Low pay, low moral, uncertain future" (in 13 reviews)
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- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Interesting projects Unique challenges Front row seat to Emerging space industry
Cons
big company beurocracy Lots of paperwork
- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
- Lots of room; there were private/shared offices, even for co-op students - Free ice cream every week
Cons
- Working with legacy systems
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
- you get to work on the biggest/most interesting projects - work week is 37.5 hours - overtime is paid 1x until 40 hours, and 1.5x for anything above 40 hours. Must be approved by manager (but rarely refused) - Free filtered coffee - now hybrid (3d office, 2d remote) - 5% RRSP matching, decent insurance plan (not paid by MDA)
Cons
- very conservative workplace - non-existing company culture. It's rarely "fun" to work. - offices are old and depressing (at least in Montreal). - no recognition of work from upper management. It's an exchange of services: they pay you for your time, that's it. - in part because of union, it's impossible to move upwards or gain more responsibilities quickly. You have to follow the collective agreement. This also means you're stuck with a 1.5% raise annually while COVID inflation is close to 7%... - pay is on the low side - EVERYTHING is slow : asking for promotion, raise, day off, talking with HR, improving processes, etc. - located very far in the outskirts of Montreal, no public transportation - not flexible with remote work. Ask your manager, who will ask his manager, who will review your request, etc...
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Friendly people Awesome projects Good Management Competitive Salary
Cons
Work process needs improvement Should allow options to work from home
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great technologies, good knowledge, good salary
Cons
Atmosphere could be better, office is pretty far
- Current Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Great coworkers, intelligent people, flexible work environment
Cons
Low wages, slow progress, union means more or less everyone gets same salary
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Good pay and benefits Interesting work Nice co-workers
Cons
Increasingly restrictive work from home policy (only certain days allowed) Micro-management and authoritarian control from executive management which does not provide much freedom for director's and line managers to make decisions related to employee working arrangements
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great benefits that start immediately.
Cons
Not a lot of communication between departments, causing new ideas to not be approved or to be shot down on arrival.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great work environment, motivated, inclusive staff, good support from program managers, new HQ opening next year
Cons
pay isn't very competitive, need more resources for current projects
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Unique tech, smart people, west coast home with international community
Cons
Occasionally too bureaucratic, decision making skews toward risk avoidance vs, agility
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MDA has an overall rating of 3.6 out of 5, based on over 424 reviews left anonymously by employees. 70% of employees would recommend working at MDA to a friend and 58% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.
70% of MDA employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated MDA 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.4 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.
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