Cubic Reviews

Pros

Great Pay for the area
Training Opportunity
Good Working Environment

Cons

Not much opportunity for advancement
Health benefits lacking

Pros

The work is challenging and ever changing and it allows a sense of accomplishment by staying in close connection with the customer

Cons

There is a certain degree of understandable volatility as the defense industry scales back and the demand for out sourced support decreases, yet there is very limited support from the company to assist those caught in this volatility.

Pros

The good thing about working for Cubic is that although the pay is lower than average you will be able to sustain a living, while you wait for the axe to fall.

Cons

Upper management is very protective of themselves. Little or no regard for fairness in hiring or promoting minorities. Majority work in Facilities.

Advice to Senior Management

Cubic is an international company and deals with industries in many third world countries. They have one Hispanic in sent to world New Zealand.

Pros

Good department. Excellent people to work with.

Cons

Too many last minute deadlines. Lack of communications between PMs and PEs.

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

The company is involved with a boad range of different technologies. You don't end up doing the same thing time and again. The people are great. There is a lot of knowledge around and the culture is to share not hoard knowlege.

Cons

It often seems that decision makers seem to get stuck on old ideas and business practices, it is hard to convince management to try new things. At the same time decisions are made by management against the advice of experienced workers, and these decisions often prove costly.

Advice to Senior Management

If a project is behind schedule the worst thing you can do is decree that some development is "good enough" and force things forward. That will only cause things to be delayed more later on. Take the schedule hit and get things done the first time. Also, let the developers tell you how long it will take them to accomplish something, and get more than one opinion. Make the schedule development process more scientific to reduce your error. Hire summer interns. Young inexperienced people are willing to come in and work hard on uninteresting but necessary tasks. It is a win win. They get experience and the company gets hard work on the cheap.
Do we really need so many VPs? All those hefty salaries have to effect our bottom line.Maybe taking a chunk out of the management side of our proposals would help us win some more.