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3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,971 total reviews)
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Neal Blue

78% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

General Atomics has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,971 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The General Atomics employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Jun 7, 2019

Caveat GA

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of great people. Genuine and care about doing good work. Some divisions have the 980 work week. (Every other Friday off)

Cons

Inept Management. Creating then allowing, even fomenting and fostering a dysfunctional culture. There is an addiction to terribly ineffective processes, inefficiency, defensiveness, and management by fear that is so behind the times, and counter to long understood best practices, it has created a resigned hopelessness among the intimidated folks in the trenches at almost every level. Management is either oblivious or entirely unconcerned. Many unsuspecting employees were bait and switched after being hired with a set-up that they never would have agreed to if foreseen in the interview or recruitment.

2.0
Jun 1, 2019

Good Old Boys

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

9/80 work schedule, 401K, grateful to have an income

Cons

Management favors former military who think they’re still in the military. Lack of flow down information across the board. Favoritism, processes and policies that continuously change without company wide notification. Just a mess of a company with high turnover. People come here for ‘job security’ because GA has never had a major layoff. The trade off is low pay and archaic processes. It’s definitely a ‘good old boys’ culture where one gets ahead by kissing up to management.

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General Atomics Response
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We appreciate the 8+ years you’ve spent with us, and we’re glad to know that you’re happy with your flexible schedule, your retirement benefits and your job security – all of which are very important to us, too. While we’re obviously disappointed to hear your views on our culture, our management teams do, in fact, grow and change. As do our processes. But it takes time when an organization grows as quickly as we’ve been growing, and so we appreciate your efforts to push us.
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