L-3 Communications Reviews

Pros

They give free training and you get paid for it. There was never nothing to do so if your building didn't have a contract for you to work on they would find something for you to do, rather than send you home.

Cons

You had to be at work extra early so that you would have enough time to get to your building because it was so big.

Pros

Great place to work and room for advancement.

Cons

Lots of politics going on.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the little guys.

Pros

ComCept has good people and a solid product. The middle managers are also good people and allow a flexible schedule. The pay is a bit above normal for an entry level software engineer.

Cons

Recently the company has dived into Agile without sufficiently training the employees. Also, the upcoming defense cuts have many people running scared. While the policies are fairly lenient, beware the wrath of HR if you stray outside of those policies.

Advice to Senior Management

Take the profit cuts and continue to keep up training your employees. Also keep up the IRAD - keep learning new things or die.

Pros

L3 is a good place to work with a professional environment and opportunity for advancement. Training is available to help with job growth.

Cons

Like all large companies that profit from the economies of scale, the required processes can be oppressive to the human spirit.

Advice to Senior Management

Management must not only direct but also facilitate the workforce in order to accomplish the big picture objectives. Also lead by example.

Pros

The work is very interesting and challenging.

Cons

Management galore. Upper management in so out of touch and communication from the top to the bottom is horrific.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn how to manage and communicate

Pros

Paid very well for what little/mundane work we had.

Cons

No room for promotion. Did not offer much opportunity to better yourself I.E. School. Had some decent programs but was very hard to get approved. Medical benefits... well at least I was able to say I had insurance. Wasn't really a benefit... more like an all you can rob buffet.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees and try to hire management that can understand English better.

Pros

Solid company great opportunities to learn on your own.

Cons

Testers / Technicians need to understand their role.

Advice to Senior Management

Remove under performing employees.

Pros

Not a hostile environment, keeps building 66-68 degrees so never hot, celebrate Christmas with parties, no uniform, tennis shoes welcome

Cons

expensive healthcare, HR terminates without giving notice to your own supervisor, your health insurance will be terminated without a grace period, you are required to work in severe weather such as flooding or tornadic.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide proof of health insurance costs instead of avoiding it. You claim employees pay 100% and you charge nothing more, so provide that proof, give employees grace period. Have HR communicate with supervisors before terminating employment. After years of employment its shocking to find out employment terminated, insurance cancelled, and supervisors are completely in the dark about it!

Pros

The people are good to work with. Good benefits. Like the 9/80 workweek.

Cons

Small part of a very large corporation. Don't get much visibility

Pros

Good compensation
Good benefits
Opportunity for advancement or to stay in a position

Cons

Communications sometimes delayed between different work locations

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to (and is) working on better inter department communication