BAE Systems Land and Armaments – “Great place to work for people with families.”

Pros

Once you get familiar with the culture and people, you realize that this is a great place to work for. Your peers and managers are very supportive of you, be it professionally or supporting you in balancing your social/family life. The work is great and very interesting, while it lasts. Also, it offers great benefits, even better than most commercial companies, like Apple, where they work you to death and offer you little compensation in return.

Cons

Because this is a Defense business, all contracts hang on the hands of politicians. If they decide to pull the plug on your contract, then most likely you'll be laid off. In other words, the work is stable as long as the contract is not taken away by politicians.

Advice to Senior Management

This is aimed at the VPs and above...we live in the 21st century, and you must realize that SOFTWARE is going to play a big part on the success of this company. So, start promoting more people with software engineering background to senior management positions.