MDA reviews

3.5

72% would recommend to a friend

(645 total reviews)
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Mike Greenley

50% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

MDA has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 645 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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645 reviews
1.0
Nov 12, 2016

Work Environment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Excellent past accomplishments. Done some great work in Space Systems Engineering.Great Work Experience.

Cons

Climbing the career ladder is nearly impossible or very biased. Toxic work environment. Willingness to listen to the engineers is non existent. Old fashioned strict hierarchical management.

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Outdated technology everywhere, strict IT policies mean you can't do any work: they don't let you download, install, run anything until IT scans it.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
Oct 27, 2016

Good employer

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Dynamic environment. Many projects. Multidisciplanry teams.

Cons

Little opportunities to advance. Average or below average pay.

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