QinetiQ Reviews

Current Employee – been working at QinetiQ

Pros – They offer good pay, the co-workers are friendly and management can be great. There are usually contracts available in many different areas for different government agencies.

Cons – They don't care about finding you follow on work after your contract ends. They treat you more as a resource to get contract dollars instead of as a human being. It doesn't really matter how well you do on a particular contract, there is no real opportunity for advancement. Contractors are left to fend for them self's if there is no follow up funding. The company tends to absorb smaller companies and add a great amount of bureaucracy to their operations.

Advice to Senior Management – Try and overcome high turn over rates and give opportunities for worker advancement.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at QinetiQ

Pros – Interesting Gov't contract working with Department of Homeland Security. Good balence of work and homelife. Adapting to constant change of Gov't red tape a must.

Cons – Gov't employees paid equivalent of contractors but don't have a clue are not held accountable and cannot be fired. Gov't employees are poorly trained and unmotivated. Might not get re-hired when contract rools over.

Advice to Senior Management – Have better understanding of what average employee does on a daily basis. Better retirement plan with company vestment in 401K occuring over a shorter time period.

Former Employee – worked at QinetiQ as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Some of the most interesting projects to work on, if you get them. There is a lot of scope for learning. You will have some of the best people around you to work with.

Cons – There can be long stretches of time where there is little to no work available. Your skill set and expertise may be undervalued because there is a lack of work to exploit it. Your experience with them will vary between excitement and fun projects, to a boring research or data mining job.

Advice to Senior Management – Get more work for your employees. Encourage mobility around the business. Place people where their skills are utilised.

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 QinetiQ full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Interesting technical work. Nice colleagues. Some very smart and friendly people. Flexible working. Gym and canteen on main sites are good.

Cons – Dis-organised. Have to fight for opportunities. Many people pigeon-holed. No clarity about pay or progression. Managers aren't entrepreneurial. Unlike many software companies middle managers don't understand the technologies they are selling/steering the development of.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote technical expertise. Expect both technical and domain expertise of middle managers. Then they will make good investment and management calls. Better than stifling projects with an excessive risk-toll. Invest in good traits of research organisations such as conference attendance. These are not "jollies" but a fundamental part of making sure scientific staff understand the state of the art in the industries within which they work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at QinetiQ full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Interesting and varied work, especially for a new graduate. THe company offers a good opportunity to try a few streams of work before specialising

Cons – The structured progression is slow, and you can be expected to take on a significant increase in responsibilities before a promotion or payrise.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at QinetiQ full-time

Pros – Good people to work with

Cons – Poor career progression in general

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at QinetiQ full-time

Pros – -Work on whole array of projects from security, space, training and simulation, security, air through to human factors
-Work with some of the most intelligent and influential experts in the country
-Interesting work
-Plenty of opportunity to join different businesses within QinetiQ
-Great office complex in Farnborough with canteen, coffee shop, gym, squash court, nice grounds and even dry cleaning service
-Good benefits and employee program in place including employee helpline for free, flexible benefits, training, subsided gym on site
-Good community feel – many employee clubs and societies
-Great opportunities for young people

Cons – -Under resourced in many areas
-Internally focused in many areas

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at QinetiQ full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – varied work, great for technical staff.
good leave\flexi time nad facilities which are a hang over from the civil service dats
saying yes to every stupid idea will get you far

Cons – low pay and regualr bullying by managment.
astounding poor man management, corruption jobs for mates.
no trade union recognation

Advice to Senior Management – as a knowledge organisation at the rate your staff are leaving you will have no substainable business left. Sell you shares whilst they are still worth something.

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

Former Employee – worked at QinetiQ full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Interesting work, skilled people. Good Terms, Flexi time etc.

Cons – Staff tend to moan a lot. Limited pay rises. Pay is below industry standards. Management can be heavy handed.

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

Current Employee – been working at QinetiQ full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Some activities are interesting. Hours can be flexible.

Cons – Management sucks from divisional leadership to senior.
The salary rises are very poor.
The recruitment standards are poor.
There is a lot of bullying of staff at all levels.
The CEO Leo Quinn is poor in all aspects other than robbing the company for his services.

Advice to Senior Management – Think about people as humans, treat the staff with more respect and recruit higher caliber staff.

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