CAE reviews

Culture, fear management. lack of leadership

Salaries start out low and stay that way. Managers will use ANYTHING and EVERYTHING against you when the yearly review comes around. I was working for them when the company was FORCED to bump up engineering salaries in order to stop a flood of Engineers quitting to go elsewhere. (At the time, the yearly increase was never more than 1.5%, no matter how good you were). The company has always had a reputation as one which only cares about its bottom line and it certainly lives up to it. Transfers to another department are only allowed at their discretion and benefit. Finally, work there when you go over the 45 years old mark OR stay there long enough to get past the 50% mark of your salary range and you automatically become a lay-off candidate. This is well known about CAE and it happened to me as well as MANY other engineers. A good friend was working for them as a low-level manager for over 12 years (putting in 50-60 hour weeks) and asked for a transfer to Ontario because his wife had transferred. He was granted the transfer with the agreement that he would be at the Montreal plant for 1 week each month (he stayed with me while in Montreal). He attended meetings in person or by video link. He did his job as efficiently as always. He thought that CAE was really appreciative of his loyalty and work ethic for the 12 years he was there. He believed them when they promised him continued employment because his move had NO effect on his performance. Then they laid him off after 3 months.