General Atomics reviews

Lower pay. Vertically orientated management structure. Reading government resports, it seems that the company needs to flatten its manangement structure. Not enough input from workers is taken by senior management. Poor communication between departments. Needs some improvment on processes, making them same way everytime. Tribal knowledge is everywhere. People seem to hoard information to preserve their usefulness.

Areas outside of engineering are in the growing stage, and not very organized. For example, finance, purchasing, etc are not as structured as other companies I have worked for. Management and organization is still catching up with recent size growth. There are a lot of confusion in terms of roles and responsibilities, as well as authority of each manager. Each department does things very differently, which makes intracompany moves more difficult. The company has very informal communication, so if you are new it takes effort to tap into the information circle. Being a private company, management is a black box and decisions are not well explained.