General Atomics reviews

My reason for leaving was personal, but the pay was relatively low and there were some slow days. The department was growing and they were fitting a lot of people (2-3 people) into small cubicle sections. There was almost no software to validate your hand-calculations or if the work became too iterative or tedious to sensibly do by hand. Almost everything was done into spreadsheets and if someone else had previously done the work it was difficult to get those spreadsheets; to verify they had done it correctly or understand what assumptions they had made. This no doubt strengthens the fundamentals although you could only go so far. Electrical engineers do not get to do their own layout, and layout people have very different hours too. My particular department did not allow headphones, which I did not like.

Raises are a % based system which was mostly always behind inflation. Difficult to advance without getting a degree even after working years at company