BAE SYSTEMS (United Kingdom) Reviews

Current Employee – been working at BAE SYSTEMS (United Kingdom) full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – -Talented, passionate people
-Interesting technology and work
-Good work-life balance (flexible hours, very little pressure to overwork)

Cons – -Massive, senseless bureaucracy imposed from 'corportate' level
-Workforce is very disconnected from management as a result. Low morale, distrust.

Advice to Senior Management – Management need to listen to their staff more and stop trying to impose things in such a heavy-handed top-down manner. Trust your people to do their jobs ...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at BAE SYSTEMS (United Kingdom) as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Interesting programme. Variety of contractors

Cons – You must take lunch between 12 and 12.30. The facilities are filthy. Embarrassing environment to take customer around

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 BAE SYSTEMS (United Kingdom) full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very good engineering firm
Some very good people to work with/for
Interesting projects to get involved in
Very good graduate scheme

Cons – Rewards seems more tied to length of service than actual performance, leading to many older engineers just coasting by as they collect their remuneration and more junior engineers getting nothing for working hard.
Job grade is not tied to salary, meaning a junior person doing the same job as a senior person will be paid much less.
Internal bun-fighting over things like training and HR as well as a fair amount of confusion over management structure

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure to reward the hard workers and don't be afraid to trim the dead wood.
Engage with the workers further down the chain to find the best practice.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BAE SYSTEMS (United Kingdom) full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work is varied and challenging.

Cons – Large company. Inflexible and hard to stand out from the crowd.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at BAE SYSTEMS (United Kingdom) full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good hours
Fairly good wages
Good bunch of fellow employees

Cons – Public relations nightmare
Treat individuals like dirt

Advice to Senior Management – Wake up and smell the coffee--your business depends on your employees, and treating them like you do isn't very good for the long term business plan........

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 BAE SYSTEMS (United Kingdom) full-time

Pros – Lots of technical options, good career progression, great culture and people

Cons – Not so many great business consultancy opportunities

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at BAE SYSTEMS (United Kingdom) full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - cares about learning and development
- takes care of its employees (unfortunately this is often to the point where poor performance is not dealt with)

Cons – - no particular regonition for high achievers other than a score in your performance review
- difficult to see clear career paths
- boys club mentality

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at BAE SYSTEMS (United Kingdom)

Pros – Great people, cutting-edge technology and exceptional products. Exposure to Government to Government relationships and procurement decisions, ability to travel and live overseas, opportunity to network at senior levels, well recognised brand

Cons – Lower than average pay, difficult to move up through organisation quickly, pockets of poor behaviour that are not appropriately addressed (ie personal agendas)

Advice to Senior Management – More structured career progression and better nurturing and financial reward for high potential employees. Streamline processes and actively seek to win business rather than trying to do the minimum to get by

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BAE SYSTEMS (United Kingdom)

Pros – Great benefits in terms of flexible working, core hours, holidays, share schemes, pension etc. Good apprenticeship and graduate schemes to encourage young people into the business. Good international exposure and opportunities to travel. Interesting work and generally good job satisfaction.

Cons – An extremely large company making it difficult for progression at times. Many levels of bureaucracy. Lots of politics given the nature of the business. Customers running out of money globally causing significant difficulties in gaining new business.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BAE SYSTEMS (United Kingdom)

Pros – Work life balance benefits including flexi time
Opportunities to develop and progress
The opportunity to work globally

Cons – Very large organisation - difficult to make an impact
Slow decision making process

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend