MDA reviews

3.6

75% would recommend to a friend

(642 total reviews)
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Mike Greenley

53% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

MDA has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 642 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MDA 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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642 reviews
2.0
Mar 1, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

There are some great people working as team leads that are the redeeming factor of the company. If you're lucky enough to get a good team lead, your time here could be okay. Work life balance tends to be really good. Working late seems to be a rare occurrence on most teams

Cons

Very little - No technical training. Starting here as a new hire or starting a new project can be extremely overwhelming. You're basically given a task and thrown into a stack/codebase with very little context or explanation. This combined with low employee retention means that there are often projects where even the senior engineers don't know how anything works. Often the "expert" on the system was given just a little training as you got, and you're all just reverse engineering some monolithic codebase. Constantly changing specs and priorities. Expect to be given work before the design phase is complete, thus repeating it again later. Expect to have high priority tasks come out of nowhere on a weekly basis and throw off your whole timeline. Low pay. This generally sucks if you're an employee. But also has the side effect of causing alot of people to leave, so many old systems have none of the original people left who worked on them (a big cause of confusion). Management has been "looking into salary adjustments" for the last 2 years, but those adjustments are always 6 months away, ad infinitum. One can only hope they'll conclude their salary market research sometime in the next decade.

1.0
Sep 17, 2016

Avoid at all costs

Recommend
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Pros

None this place is toxic

Cons

The culture is toxic, forget about growing or developing in the company unless you one of the few chosen ones. I was headhunted from europe to support a high profile program but right from the get go when i landed in Vancouver they started regining in on there promises and the role was nothing like it was supposed to be. I felt really shanghied by the management and HR was a joke they had no integrity at all just drones. I ended up leaving after 2 years and had diffculty in finding a new job as they would not give me a reference for no reason at all. I worked hard for them it was not my fault that the culture sucks.

1.0
Aug 26, 2016

MDA the promise

Recommend
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Pros

Work diverserty is/wwas very interesting

Cons

Does not share a good work/life balance ethic

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