MDA Developer reviews

3.3

84% would recommend to a friend

(77 total reviews)
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Mike Greenley

47% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Developer employees have rated MDA with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 77 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Developer professionals have a good working experience there. MDA is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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77 reviews
1.0
Nov 9, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

As a full time employee you get 15% discount on company stock, and you can invest up to 10% of your annual salary. I think this is by far the best perk here. You also get 30% discount on Rogers bills and $10 MS Office Suite. Even though this is an established company, project based nature means every project feels like a startup - you get to do literally everything. Development, product design, devops... I guess this could also be a con, but if you are a younger developer this experience will be valuable later on. Work-life balance is in most cases encouraged.

Cons

Outdated technology everywhere, strict IT policies mean you can't do any work: they don't let you download, install, run anything until IT scans it. USB connection has been stripped recently. Seriously this company is going back in time, and that includes sub-par compensation. Somehow these people believe being able to bank overtime is a killer benefit... No choice of equipment. Getting a laptop here is for some reason a privilege, and you can only get it after certain years of experience. Company is project based, and project teams are put together on demand. This means no product ownership and every code base is pretty much all spaghetti code. Only way the projects get under way is if a customer is willing to pay for it. A joke of a company.

4.0
Aug 15, 2016

Software Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Excellent team environment. You can learn a lot of different domains in the same building. I love not having to pay for parking downtown and the gym is great. I love the flex time. I am able to finish a project and then take some time off when needed.

Cons

I miss downtown but the free parking makes up for it.

1.0
Jan 24, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Nice coworkers, paid overtime, interesting problems.

Cons

Good place to go if you are looking for a place to fall death or you just don’t care about your career and want a measly salary. Old company, run by old rules, similar to a factory. Very hierarchical decision making. People with no technical background giving technical directives, without being held accountable for they decisions. All the bad reviews below are completely true, don’t doubt any of the things they mention. Nepotism all over the place. They don’t care about their employees, not even the most senior ones that have given 10 to 20 years of their life to the company, after all those years they are rewarded with a couple hundred dollars as a “present” from the company. Terrible decision making by leaders, they can’t understand why their products are subpar, they think that their process is going to protect them forever, so they can’t see that all the “company” is already obsolete. They overlook some of the most important parts of modern software development and don’t even know which standards to follow. Also, the cafeteria food is awful, and there is no alternative, since the place is located far away from civilization. The Canadian government should just shut them down, they are just wasting our taxes on their eternal vacation and being a bad example for young engineers. If you want to continue your career after working there try to forget everything you learned there, or just think about it as “I will work hard to never become like the people at MDA”.

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