MDA Software Developer reviews

3.4

84% would recommend to a friend

(76 total reviews)
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Mike Greenley

47% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated MDA with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 76 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. MDA is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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76 reviews
4.0
Jul 12, 2017

Software Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work hours. Positive work environment. Everyone is very helpful and are willing to either walk you through your problem or point you to the resources or people who can help with the current problem.

Cons

Low pay compared to other organizations in Vancouver.

1.0
Apr 5, 2017

Complacency

Recommend
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Pros

$1 pancake on friday, aside from that, very little.

Cons

This company does not foster collaboration in their teams, everyone is given their own work package and an allocated time budget to finish the task. Taking time away from yourself to help another coworker is inherently 'punished' since you're wasting your own allocated time. Managers don't care for your career development. you better hope that your supervisor will fight for you because if not, you won't be seeing yourself progressing up the ladder. pay is below market value.

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Outdated technology everywhere, strict IT policies mean you can't do any work: they don't let you download, install, run anything until IT scans it.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

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