DigitalGlobe Reviews

Pros

Strong market position, limited competition

Cons

Frustrating in their ability to take advantage of market opportunities. DG has a history of writing their own press and then believing it to be true.

Advice to Senior Management

Look to the market and your market facing employees to identify areas of change and growth. Ask the hard questions and challenge the answers you receive from within.

Pros

Cool technology, exciting business. Secure government contracts mean the business isn't going to shut down. Good benefits package and employee break room.

Cons

Senior management is terrible and they think people are widgets. As long as you keep your head down and don't challenge the status quo, you'll be ok. The HR team is completely turned over every two years, if they can't retain HR people then something is seriously wrong.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is in it only to cash out and most employees know it. They make promises they don't keep and credibility is low.

Pros

Good market position and perspectives for future.

Cons

Lack of direction and technical competence at various levels

Pros

The company is financially very successful, so job security is great. Since they do some work essentially as a defense contractor, they do not outsource jobs, which is obviously another boon for job security. Some (but not all) of the groups use leading edge technologies, which makes the technical work more interesting and valuable on the resume.

Cons

I haven't seen much promotion from within, despite the huge list of open positions. There is also some disfunction between groups that should be working closely together, but prefer (for whatever reason) to work in their own silo.

Advice to Senior Management

The company has done a good job of hiring capable people, we should extend the value of that hiring practice by doing a better job of promoting from within.

Pros

Great Tech Company to work for.

Cons

no internal career or training program

Advice to Senior Management

Invest internally

Pros

Great people work at DigitalGlobe. Lots of outdoorsy types and fun loving beer drinkers. Super cool technology and lots of brilliant folks.

Cons

Upper level leadership often seemed unwilling to hear about mistakes made by their predecessors and therefore were doomed to repeat those mistakes.

Advice to Senior Management

when i was employed there management definitely promoted their favorite people no matter if they were competent or not...hopefully this has changed.

Pros

Interesting stuff, nice people, not so much politics
Very advanced technology (satellites)

Cons

Luck of information sharing,
Small industry represents lower potential when moving on.

Advice to Senior Management

Delegate tasks and responsibility
Provide feedback
Expand markets by adding value to the product and into the supply chain