Thales Reviews

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

Pros – Great Benefits - Health, Life 401k, Retirement
great hours, great location, wonderful people

Cons – There are some lack of communication between the business units/companies. Management has changed and it seems for the better!

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to listen to the employees and consider their ideas. Compare current salaries with others in the industry and update Thales. Focus on retaining current employees.

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

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

Pros – Recent management changes have made a huge differences, a good spirit, good people

Cons – I can't really think of anything negative. There used to be poor performers around but the company has dealt with those people recently.

Advice to Senior Management – Hopefully management will keep making positive changes

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

Current Employee – been working at Thales full-time

Pros – Very dynamic engineering, with emphasis on innovation and systemic project management.

Cons – Not much on these, maybe the same dynamic aspect can drive sometime to un-managed change.

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

Current Employee – been working at Thales full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good hardworking dedicated people, great benefits, advancement opportunities

Cons – Sometimes, it gets too political among other departments.

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

Former Employee – worked at Thales full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Interesting/sophisticated work; empowered to make important decisions; international travel (Paris); good work/life balance; market compensation; pleasant colleagues (some awesome, none awful); good immediate boss.

Cons – Currently a transitional environment because of organizational changes at Group and US HQs (impacts morale and job security); ocasional cultural gaps between French and US management (never a problem for me).

Advice to Senior Management – Weather the economic storm and increase focus on morale; improve internal communication.

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

Former Employee – worked at Thales full-time for more than a year

Pros – 4 weeks PTO because you definitely need it. The people that management so calls "at the bottom" or "lower level" are the best and hardest working people.

Cons – Sadly the mentality and culture at Thales Irvine is to drive fear into the employees so they will work hard and keep quiet. People are worked to death, Management is poor, and your Integrity is worth nothing. They make you take a bunch of Ethics courses but they are NOT Ethical AT ALL. They sweep all problems under the rug as long as they can avoid legalities on their side but could care LESS for the damages done to the employees. If you complain, they will make your life miserable.

Advice to Senior Management – WORST Ethics I had ever seen. The company can only progress when the negative mentality and culture changes.

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 Thales full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good Insurance, 4-5 weeks PTO, and 401K.

Cons – No training and No support from any level of Managers. Can't trust Human Resources cause they are not confidential and will Retaliate. Does not hold people accountable or responsible for their job or actions. Does not appreciate those with an education. Too much politics. No opportunities unless you really know how to suck up big time.

Advice to Senior Management – Appreciate people for their hard work. Let the employees anonymously rate their managers to decide who actually Needs Improvement.

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 Thales

Pros – Great benefits, never boring, bosses let you do your job with a large degree of independence.

Cons – Upper management sometimes out of touch, reluctant to settle conflicts, conflicts created by conflicting goals. Examples, build something quickly, but spend no time or money on it, but get it delivered. Satisfy customers, but cut costs from current level by spending less time on customer satisfaction. Handle more business, but with fewer people.

Advice to Senior Management – Tell everyone what the priority is, instead of making people wrong no matter what the result

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Thales

Pros – Great benefits.
Good pay.
Relaxed atmosphere with a lot of funny people (lots of ex-military).

Cons – Work can be slow with the decline of the airline industry.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Thales

Pros – Great benefits and paid time off

Cons – Limited advancement opportunities
Give you generic job title to lower compensation

Advice to Senior Management – Offer some sort of program where employees benefit when the company does well financially