MDA reviews

3.6

75% would recommend to a friend

(643 total reviews)
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Mike Greenley

52% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

MDA has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 643 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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643 reviews
4.0
Jan 26, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible time, good benefits, vacation time!

Cons

Slow rate of pay increase, stagnation in terms of knowledge acquisition, can be repetitive at times.

1.0
Jan 24, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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”.

5.0
Dec 15, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Coworkers friendly, great work environment. No overtime, but any extra hours worked can be either paid out or used to take time off. This is tracked. Three weeks vacation for an entry level job is great. Company offers many groups and activities for staff to participate in. Recently, increased effort to ensure engineers have a defined career path and career advancement isn't simply lip service. Flexible working hours. Private or shared offices for most staff. Good health plan. Offers subsidized in-house training courses for subjects both specific to radar as well as more generally. Good company to get your feet wet in the business and see how software and systems engineering is done.

Cons

Base pay is still a little low for starting engineers, although getting straight pay for extra hours worked offsets this. Must do your time to get promoted. Salary transparency is discouraged. Pseudo vitality curve ranking system for engineers.

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