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Pros
"Mostly good progression opportunities, good flexible working and good opportunities" (in 87 reviews)
"Work life balance is acceptable" (in 62 reviews)
Cons
"Management career progression better supported than engineering progression" (in 17 reviews)
"Continually changing senior management which impedes a firm structure and direction for the workforce" (in 17 reviews)
Pros & Cons are excerpts from user reviews. They are not authored by Glassdoor.
- Featured Review
"Great development and opportunity"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at BAE Systems full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Appetite for success, technical brainpower and systematic problem solving/innovation
Cons
Customer driven culture can be burdensome, the drive for change is real and taking effect
"Project Engineer"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at BAE Systems full-time for more than 10 years
Pros
Independent, Decision making responsibility, Transparency in what we do and Honesty.
Cons
Growth, Training and development here at Bangalore
Continue reading"Not great for a large company, little development"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at BAE Systems full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Good bonus, shares, pension and that's about it
Cons
Everything else - terrible management and culture
"Business Development Executive"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at BAE Systems
Pros
- Great work-life balance - Helpful management
Cons
Not many opportunities to grow
"Good Company and Good people"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsApproves of CEOI worked at BAE Systems full-time for more than 10 years
Pros
Pay, vacation, accommodation, when middle and upper management were interested and involved life was sweet.
Cons
off book demands by customer. lack of support of management at times. never a constant as regimes changed often
"FTSE 100 company providing advanced technology led solutions for defence and security"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at BAE Systems full-time
Pros
breadth of roles available at all levels
Cons
limited opportunities to work internationally due to security restrictions
- Helpful (1)
"Big"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookI have been working at BAE Systems full-time
Pros
Large org, so progression available Money is okay Good benefits
Cons
Easy to get lost in the size Not always that exciting due to lack of visibility at the top level
Continue reading "Great Place to Work"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookI worked at BAE Systems full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Great opportunities to experience different contracts and lines of business. Everyone you work with is driven by a mission-first mindset.
Cons
Too much emphasis on driving shareholder value.
Continue reading"Good pay"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNeutral OutlookI have been working at BAE Systems full-time
Pros
Plenty of overtime opportunity and good pay
Cons
Lots of paper work to do
- COVID-19
"Old school engineering firm with public sector... cosiness."
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at BAE Systems full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Flexible hours. great people, interesting work if you can put yourself to the task. Colleagues have been great company and got to get some eyes into some interesting work around the office. Good training programs, OK remuneration, good working pace if you're familiar with public sector environments, except you're actually trusted to perform the work as technical experts (where warranted). Some very smart people around to work with though, so while there was a bit of "impostor syndrome", everyone's on the same boat when it comes to routine engineering work. Reasonably acceptable amenities.
Cons
Rigorous security implements makes for some discomfort be it leaving your phone or otherwise taking ages with software approvals (as is with any defence contractor). Lazy management structure so you're left to your own vices to proactively get any work done or progressing. COVID controls were rather extreme for an office setting to the point that staff morale had dropped. IT sysadmins lacking any real support due to operating on a shoestring (eg: if one person is away, no one is around to support specific systems - there goes productivity). Depending on work duties, sometimes you're handballed to deal with someone else's mess involving domains outside of your area of expertise, because previous SMEs have either moved on, resigned or are otherwise unavailable to support and they can't find anyone else to help. Software is treated like an afterthought - "anyone can do software" so getting unqualified non-software engineers to build safety-critical software is a regular occurrence... Fortunately it keeps us in a job to fix up their mistakes (even if dull).
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