Curtiss-Wright Controls Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Curtiss-Wright Controls full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – People,decent pay, good benefits, like family

Cons – To much gossip. Needs to have better moral

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to your workers as to comments

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Curtiss-Wright Controls full-time for less than a year

Pros – They promoted the workplace as a "family unit." All of the workers were friendly and the atmosphere promoted solidarity. Everyone worked well together and there seemed to be a general feeling of pleasantness in the workplace.

Cons – The upper management lacked a clear vision and micromanagement was a huge concern. Due to obvious favoritism, there was some animosity between certain departments. This also contributed to certain individuals who were not necessarily qualified for certain jobs being promoted into positions that they couldn't perform.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire the right person for the right job and micromanagement will not become an issue. Try to avoid very obvious favoritism.

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

Former Employee – worked at Curtiss-Wright Controls

Pros – The engineers and technician are good to work with

Cons – The management is incompetent and the workload at times is not reasonable.

Advice to Senior Management – Very top heavy. Do you really need 5 levels of management for a handful of engineers?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Curtiss-Wright Controls

Pros – The work never gets stale because people need to learn new things to keep up with new products being developed.
Flexibility regarding work from home and work hours.

Cons – Product requirements can be vague, making it hard to know what to develop.
Company is shutting down San Diego site.

Former Employee – worked at Curtiss-Wright Controls

Pros – Great engineers
Opportunity to work on innovative designs that serve customers well

Cons – Toxic politics
Good engineering is backseat to sales. Projects are promised with inadequate time, planning, and money in a desperate attempt to show bids.
Nepotism Nepotism Nepotism. It exists everywhere but at CW it's a way of life
Open degradation and belittling of employees across the board, top to bottom, performing and non-performing

Advice to Senior Management – The one piece of advice for management, namely fire all of the managers and revamp the culture, is the one thing least likely to happen. The place is poison.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Curtiss-Wright Controls

Pros – the people are great to work with (mid management and below). overall a good place to work.

Cons – for people on office hours there is not enough offered for work/life balancing. there used to be a 9-80 schedule worked, but it was stopped.

Advice to Senior Management – try to genuinely listen to the people--don't just go through the motions by taking surveys and doing nothing. really listen to what is going on day to day and react.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Curtiss-Wright Controls

Pros – The products are Interesting and the worker try to overcome the management short coming by working harder and longer.

Cons – Management lacks accountability, which permeates to the lower management and employees. The company has many silos between departments and within departments.

Advice to Senior Management – Management should be interested in doing what is in the best interest of both the company and employees not what is best for personal interests. Eliminate the department and inter-department silos. Provide an environment for open and honest communication.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Curtiss-Wright Controls full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Some nice people to work with, doing their best under pressure from senior management.
Pension plan better than other companies.

Cons – Culture of just do as you are told, constantly under pressure from senior management to attain quarterly targets. Not keen on change or training.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Curtiss-Wright Controls full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great benefit plans, health care, etc.

Cons – Way too much process and phony milestones. Lots of metrics established from outside consultancy firms that were poor in determining real productivity and achievement.

Advice to Senior Management – Start using subjective goals to get real results, rather than gaming the system to get false results.

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 Curtiss-Wright Controls

Pros – Career growth supported by management; excellent benefits

Cons – Work-life balance is not ideal at times

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate more

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend