Bombardier Aerospace Reviews

Pros

Excellent support system and diversity of work. Good employee benefits and employee involvement. Constantly improving site conditions and overall a great place to work.

Cons

Not enough communication between departments.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve communcations

Pros

Salary, support for education, flexi hours

Cons

no growth, no recognition of work done, others take credit for work you did.

Advice to Senior Management

put controls to make sure middle management is competent.

Pros

- Level of stress is low;
- Balance with personal life is good;
- Good accessibility and sharing of information;
- Good professional contact.

Cons

- Salary is not equivalent to the level of experience (around 15% less in total salary);
- Growth on the rank are done however with no salary changes;
- Takes to much time to have a raisenable salary increase. Depends on availability of missing higher engineering level;
- Benefits could be better.

Pros

Management is keen to help out individuals to reach their goals. Work life balance is important and is something that is communicated at the highest levels.

Cons

Feedback on performance is an issue here which is similar to most companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Communications and proper flow down is key.

Pros

Compensation is decent. There's a tremendous pride working for Bombardier, and everyone seems to recognize it as being a decent company.

Cons

Management does not care about you; complete apathy. HR is completely disconnected from reality. What's a standard for one team is not a standard for another. No communication outside of what's released to the press. Yearly performance reviews that have no bearing on your career. Poor performers are rewarded with the same bonuses as exceptional employees. Every department functions as a silo.

Pros

Flexibility, work / life balance, ability to move and grow within the company. The ability to work with high net worth indiviuals and companies.

Cons

Senior management's lack of willingness to address those employees who are not performing to the level expected. Employee engagement is suffering because of this.

Advice to Senior Management

Take the necessary actions required to deal with under performers. Treat your good customer as well if not better than we do with our bad customers.

Pros

- starting salary (as a recent graduate) is better compared to other companies
- benefits are OK
- nice and sympathetic people

Cons

- raises are very poor
- people specialize too much
- too much time spent on non related to work tasks
- integration prevails on technical work (which is the real work)
- company is so big that work is divided into to many specialized tasks
- no plan for orthodontic
- the offices are not set in a convenient location (Mirabel, Dorval, Ville St-Laurent)
- food sold at the cafeteria is very unsatisfactory

Advice to Senior Management

The real work is being done by partners. Bombardier decided to give the work to other companies that, most of the time, are located outside Canada. This is no good for Canada's economy. Also, this is to be considered as a knowledge leak. I don't this is good in the long term...

Pros

The company encourages employees to look for internal opportunities for development and growth, no matter in which division. The products are great and it's a very stable company

Cons

As every large company, it's very slow to react to the market and it is a late adopter of IT technologies and HR policies.

Pros

you get to be near and fly in premium jets, Globals and challengers are cool.
lots of free food
benefits are fairly good
good work-life balance in that you can take time off for emergencies or personal issues without it being a problem.

free parking
cheap cafeteria
some staff are really nice
deal with some of the best attorney's representing clients, so you learn a lot from them.

Cons

management makes all the decisions, your role is to execute only.
Top-heavy, roughly 1 manager for every 2 employees. The vp hires mostly his incompetent friends in fluff jobs. Most work is done by a few competent key staff, who are pushed to burn-out.

Quarter ends are the worst period. you work long hours to meet last minute deals on the whim of management and their numbers, or sales people. No bonus or overtime.

Sales people who you partially support make good money and treat you like garbage, even though you negotiate the final deals for them. Half the time they ignore your calls.

Work is repetitive and mostly paper pushing as you cannot make decisions.

lots of wasted time in meetings.

VP doesn't care about lower-level staff, tried to avoid staff events, staff problems, and even the christmas party.

salaries are targeted by hr to be at most equal to the middle of thier comparison companies. Result is very poor pay outside the benefits. At the same time the company has no problems throwing out millions per customer in freebies to get cash a little earlier.

lack of basic technology tools

no private rooms (conference) or offices to do your negotiations. Many times surrounding staff ignores you are talking to close a deal, and can be heard on your phone line.

incompetent staff gets promotions depending on their "extra-curricular" activities.

group bonus so individual efforts don't matter.

Advice to Senior Management

get rid of most management and hire competent people. Pay people fairly for their work as your staff is a big part of your public face.

Pros

It's a job. Much better support equipment compared to Ft Lauderdale, you wouldn't think it was the same company. English is spoken here, unlike Ft Lauderdale. You'll be very happy when shift is over.

Cons

- You'll learn quickly that you're just another number.
- Most lead mechanics care about one thing, making sure they won't ever have to hold a tool again.
- Moral is extremely low.
- 3 minute window for everyone to clock in, one second after and you're late, 20 car pile-up in front of you or not.
- Pre-work meetings will kill off any sort of happiness you may have arrived at work with.
- Management isn't happy until you're unhappy.
- Petty new company rules and regulations are non-stop in order for management to justify their existence.
- Many trip-wires to dodge, in order to avoid getting a bad boy/girl "point" against you.
- Asking a question or guidance from lead mechanic's can cause them to become very hostile.
- Been here over 3 months and have never seen, met, or spoken to GM.
- Missed promised completion dates are never the project managers fault.

Advice to Senior Management

Ask yourselves, why the company can't retain talented people. Learn to start treating your people, as just that, and maybe those that don't feel "stuck" there, will stay. Stop looking at the mechanics as the reason the aircraft are consistently not meeting the project managers "promised" completion date. Dole out rewards, half as much as you hand out reprimands. Expect others to walk on water, only after you can.