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      Thales

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      3.9

      79% would recommend to a friend

      (4,411 total reviews)
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      Patrice Caine

      87% approve of CEO

      64% positive business outlook

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      Thales has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,411 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Thales 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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      1.0
      Nov 14, 2013

      If you like working for free on weekends, you'll love it here!

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Sometimes they have free lunch on the weekends. It almost makes up for the gas you had to spend to come work for free. Most of the people that work there are actually very nice and smart people, enjoyable to work with.

      Cons

      You will be pressured into working almost every weekend. You're family will miss you. You will have no work / life balance, work will be your life. The culture is very subservant to management and having to donate nights and weekends does not seem to bother many of them in the least. Having to work the weekends is mostly a product of bad I&T support and lack of availablity of equipment to work with. There is a huge resource problem here that involves lack of products to test on, lack of computers to work on, lack of network bandwidth, lack of cables and even lack of restroom bandwidth! So they could buy more equipment (which costs money) or they can have you work the weekend (which is free).

      1.0
      Nov 14, 2013

      Poorly Managed Units, No Accountability

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      - Flex-time, Some work from home - Lots of talented and friendly people - Some Mid- and High-level management are excellent - Training opportunities is extensive

      Cons

      - Politics, red tape, and backstabbing from all fronts are normal occurrences ("watch your back always!") - More time is spent on trying to plug holes in processes and systems that are clearly outdated, deficient, and some even ridiculous than actually doing productive work. Clear example: PICF Process ("the new employee's here but there's nothing set up for him - no office, accounts, etc. where's that PICF again?!" - Ingenuity and contemporary thinking are discouraged ("don't rock the boat!") - The culture punishes the exemplary workers by giving them more work until they're fed up, whilst letting others slack off ("you're great at x, i bet you could also do y...z....and a bit of abc") - It's a matrix organization with broken ties across the board. "Silo" effect is predominant. ("That's the other department's responsibility, not ours") - Management of resources is completely out of whack. Savings earned from cutting staff, reducing overtime, etc. are wasted on unnecessary initiatives, continual switching of service providers, audits that never stop and never amount to any changes.

      4.0
      Nov 12, 2013

      Thales Australia

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Interesting company to work for. Interesting products. As a Grad you get to take part in the Graduate program, not very much different from anyone else in the office apart from lower pay, but you get to visit cool sites for 3 graduate conferences over the course of your 2 years as a Graduate program. Culture is fairly relaxed of course there are deadlines, but nor very high pressured. As a graduate you get 6 monthly salary appraisals, or are supposed to.

      Cons

      -Slow career progression. -Slow learning curve. -Not always challenged and hence not a lot of personal Growth -Systems are old.

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