MDA reviews

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”.

- ~25% Layoff in 2012 by severance avoiding "Working notices" - Many good and senior people quits this year, many other laid off, leaving some few top performers (who probably quit next year) - Corporates are focused on shareholders not employee and it's showing (attrition is skyrocketed). - You're compensation is BAD and you should feel BAD. Go work elsewhere and you get a minimum 30% raise. - No flex time. - No bonuses (except for executives) - Annual salary increases (when they occur) is less than inflation. - MDA does not keep their employees happy. - Starting salary for Juniors is almost the same as it was 10 years ago (Inflation should make 35% higher).