Solid engineering/technology company - Anonymous employee BAE Systems Employee Review

2.0
10 Apr 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Recognition for good work and hard work. - Good company pension scheme. - Excellent work/life balance. - Some excellent managers/leaders at the very top. - Very good communication of management/company objectives.

Cons

- Benefits vary too much from site to site. - Suffers too much from brain drain - need to recruit and retain good enginners. - Security policies stifle innovation, conflict with business agility and have too much negative impact on productivity. - Some very average managers/leaders at the top who move from role to role doing very little.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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