CAE Reviews

Current Employee – been working at CAE

Pros – Great presence in Tampa's market.

Cons – Difficult to work with some managers.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire better managers

Current Employee – been working at CAE

Pros – Friendly work environment
Good benefits - 401K w/ matching, health, dental, vision, life insurance, temp disability, etc...
Hours are flexible
Dress code is relaxed - jeans, polo, and sneakers

Cons – Pay-scale is lower than average
Management is unable to balance project workflow - lead to recent layoffs
Product is old and needs revamping - functionality is good but could be made to be better if they would walk away from VB6.

Advice to Senior Management – Manage the budget better

Former Employee – worked at CAE full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great Product and industry, good co-workers, lots of travelling all over the world. Great place to learn for a new engineer.

Cons – Too much work and not enough ressources (engineering). Evening, nights and week-end shifts. Benefits are going down. No more job security.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen more to employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at CAE full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good work environment, great place to get your feet wet.

Cons – Salaries, management and ability for upward movement

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees and give them more of an opportunity to see what they accomplish.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CAE full-time

Pros – Good projects, like it so far

Cons – Big Box sometimes slow processes

Former Employee – worked at CAE full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – This is an ok place for a fresher to begin and then move on as better opportunities come by
Open culture
Interesting Work

Cons – Not many opportunities
slow growth
bad compensation

Advice to Senior Management – Identify talent and reward accordingly

Current Employee – been working at CAE

Pros – large global organization, specialized in defense work.

Cons – hard to get opportunities for training and advancement

Advice to Senior Management – better communication and support for offices outside of Ottawa and Montreal

Former Employee – worked at CAE

Pros – was a great ambiance, open, friendly work environment up until the last 5-8 years. Given lots of responsibility early in career. Plenty of opportunity for travel, sometimes at cost of personal life.

Cons – Gone down hill. Nothing but cost cutting, and reorganizing. Atmosphere is certainly not the same as it use to be when it was one of the top 100 companies to work for in Canada. Some shift work which is not ideal, especially when travel is also involved.

Current Employee – been working at CAE full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Fast moving environment, many opportunities to learn something new everyday

Cons – Management is moving in a direction that is not conducive to keeping employees

Advice to Senior Management – Realize that your people are what makes the company's success

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at CAE full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – If you are a big fan of airplanes, you will enjoy working there. I had the chance of working on various flight simulators and it is always a thrill to fly them to test your simulation software. You also get the opportunity to travel to customers' sites to complete the installation. There are various engineering departments, so, if you get bored, you can do a lateral transfer and work on something completely different.

Cons – As with most public companies lately, we work a bit understaffed and with the pressure to deliver. We have to learn a lot of technology mostly by ourselves but, I think it is the case for all software related jobs. It can take a while to adopt new software technologies at CAE.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the rank and file employees.