Dassault Falcon Jet Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Dassault Falcon Jet full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – health insurance, vacation, onsite cafe, flight training

Cons – poor management, poor travel expenses, little employee development

Advice to Senior Management – treat all employee fairly

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dassault Falcon Jet

Pros – As long as you did your work they left you alone

Cons – Management is looking to hire their friends and will look past the rest.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of management and start over.

Former Employee – worked at Dassault Falcon Jet full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good company with good people

Cons – Old school management practices with little attention paid to those in the trenches.

Advice to Senior Management – Look at some of the modern companies and adopt some modern management tactics.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dassault Falcon Jet full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Benefits, vacations time adds up quickly 4 weeks after 10 years, some good people who really care, lunch and the office building is nice.

Cons – Pay scale needs work, too many people who are 8-5 people, Upper management out of touch. They don't understand how things get done as long as they do. Expect management employees to be 24/7/365.

Advice to Senior Management – Get more involved in how the Day to Day operations work and understand how things get done. Most of the upper management team doesn't know the employees names and it's not a large facility. They walk around so stressed out that they'll walk right by you without saying hello.

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

Former Employee – worked at Dassault Falcon Jet

Pros – One of the very few options locally for Aviation/Engineering that pays well for the area.
Possibilties for cross training exists as often engineering is slightly undermanned.

Cons – French management sometimes suffers from a culture barrier making it difficult for them to understand how American workers' values and goals differ from that of French workers.

Advice to Senior Management – A stronger value should be placed upon keeping and rewarding loyal and experienced employees that are asked to work beyond thier "title" or "rank".

Former Employee – worked at Dassault Falcon Jet

Pros – Easy work and relatively consistent, easy money. Drawing boxes in Catia.

Cons – Management is completely out of touch with what is happening.
Favoritism is rampant, You need to be part of the club to moved up to leadership positions
I've heard that the engineering department was "cleaned up" so maybe it is better now.

Advice to Senior Management – None, they know what they should do to improve, they have just ignored the feedback. At least when I was there, I have heard that there have been some changes.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dassault Falcon Jet

Pros – The benefits package is outstanding (at least until that becomes taxable income). While the pay is well below the industry average, it is closer to the average for Little Rock. But the health care is the best plan of any company that I have worked for.

Cons – Job advancement opportunities for Americans are extremely limited. In order to advance in the company (or to have anyone in management listen to you) you must be French (French Canadian doesn't count, sorry guys). The management stupidly forces a production line process in every aspect of the job...we build CUSTOM aircraft!!! EVERY jet is different. an assembly line mentality is suicidal! Stop the insanity!!!

EVERY issue that comes up is called an "Engineering error". If they mess up the paint job on the plane - engineering error. If the cabinet shop cuts a cabinet in half by mistake - engineering error. If the installers put the cabinet in backward - engineering error. It is a joke. How can I put in a true effort into my job if there is no accountability downstream, and any error (even ones that I pointed out) are pinned on me.

"Engineered with passion" - HA!!!
"Crafted with pride" - Nope...
"slapped together by the lowest bidder without regard to quality" - now THAT is the Falcon way...

Advice to Senior Management – Not necessary. The French management thinks all Americans are idiots, and therefore there is nothing we can say. It would not surprise me to see them shut down the engineering office in Little Rock in the next 3 years. I honestly thing that is the goal of the engineering management; shut down the LR engineering department and move it back to France. Therefore they will not even try to improve things.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dassault Falcon Jet

Pros – The pay is very good for this area. The benefits are more than competitive within the field. They recently went through hard times but minimized layoffs as much as possible. They did have a series of furloughs which were not well thought out or organized but they did retain more people than a lot of companies would have. Hiring has finally started to return to normal.

Cons – Below management level the average employee can expect to work overtime and weekends for no apparent reason. Plans will be made daily and those plans will be changed by noon the next day. There are no problems that aren't considered a crisis. Consequently normal procedures never develop and are never used. Every problem that arises is a unique and bewildering maze for management.

Advice to Senior Management – Upper management is knowledgeable and well intentioned. However, they second guess everyone that works for them. If people aren't allowed to make simple decisions without being corrected they will stop making decisions. That's why every single issue we have winds up being decided at a VP level. Advice to management is this; Watch the big picture and stay out of everything else.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dassault Falcon Jet

Pros – 1. Good Benefits.
2. Exposure to French Culture (Opportunity to learn new language, make diverse friends).
3. Exposure to really very well designed aircrafts.
4. Non Unionized.

Cons – 1. Poor or Unqualified Management / Leadership from Bottom-Up.
2. Exposure to French Culture (Very Nepotistic).
3. Not very structured in terms of processes...driving inconsistent standards.
4. Not a performance driven environment but a Who you Know or Are you French environment.
5. Sadly the promotion of these unqualified personnel in the ranks of management has created an environment where no one who is able to speak to the emperor has the audacity, willingness or acumen to point out he has no clothes. (couple of folks who were qualified and tried were either demoted or moved)
6. Preferential treatment for employees based on which site you serve. (France or US), (NJ or AR).
7. The last employee survey was in 2006. There was no feedback on what the results were...no notable changes to suggest employee feedback recommended changes.
8. The French tend to speak poorly of the American qualification or approach to problem solving creating a hidden animosity..an unhealthy workplace.
9. Not a diverse workplace. Only one colored person as a VP(HR), close to no colored directors or managers. No women as directors or VP's a few women managers in non essential roles.
10. High attrition rate for engineers who are career aware....more than 30 (or greater than 10%) have left since in the first 6 months of this year...that too in a poor economy.
11. OMG I need to get out of here.....

Advice to Senior Management – Not sure they would be willing to hear anyones advice...They had several management consultants come in to advice them on strategy and direction...it was never heeded.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dassault Falcon Jet

Pros – Great starting salary
Overtime compensation paid
Great benefits
Vacation/sick time
Weathers industry downturns better than corporate peers

Cons – Communication between management & employees were poor.
Interdepartment relations were in tension, instead of cooperating for the better good of the company.
During down turn, management was mum about layoffs and downsizing; no time to prepare for thw worse.

Advice to Senior Management – Practice better communication, provide more incentives for hard work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend