Thales Reviews

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

Pros

Employees are regarded as an important human resource given good respect and treatment.
Work is progressed through a well defined systematic structure.

Cons

There is limitations on resources due to tight budget. Sometimes there is a lack of equipments, platforms, or test beds which may hinder the quality and speed of work.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership shall see the strengths and weaknesses of each individual employee to assign and allocate tasks and positions accordingly so each one works at their optimal contributions.

Pros

* very nice colleagues
* very low pressure

Cons

* not so skilled people

Advice to Senior Management

* take care more about people

Pros

Large scale infrastructure project experience, working with all different sorts of people in an office, internationally well known in railway industry

Cons

Lack of respect of staff for HR Department, lack of career development, internal company system is very different from what is normally in the market

Advice to Senior Management

Need to paint a clear career path for staff, do not hire and fire staff just simply because the end of a big project

Pros

Considering personal difficulties., understanding management.

Cons

Salary not very attractive. Don't make difference between good and not so good employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay good employees better. Don't hire lame employees after internship if they are no good…
Management is quite nice I guess. It's a shame they are tied by heavy and not nimble company-level rules and practices.

Pros

great opportunity to learn Project management expertise

Cons

Too much Political environment at work

Advice to Senior Management

Think BIG

Pros

Great people to work with. Exciting products.

Cons

Lots of uncertainty of the future in the US operations sites.

Pros

A leading french company in defense, security, aerospace, transportation, ticketing etc. Thales has a very good global presence.

The local location has a rail signalling product, to my knowledge, is the best in the world.

Cons

Cannot make a generic statement here as I am not exposed to all the Divisions of thales group. Just based on the local division, I've seen lower management not appreciate and recognize good and hard work performed by some true dedicated employees year after year after year.

Lots of politics & favoritism in the play; kills the morale of honest hard workers.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure lower management appreciates and recognizes good and hard work performed by some true dedicated employees.

Make sure no one moves up just because they know how to sweet talk their supervisors or due to favoritism, but having no knowledge of the work they have to perform. We have seen just too too many examples.

This will only continue to cause Brain Drain or unsatisfied-frustrated-employees who become unmotivated to keep doing a good job.

It's happening and wake up and smell the coffee.

Pros

- Large organization
- Opportunities to work on large and challenging projects
- Opportunities to change job internally
- Time to acquire expert skills

Cons

- Very bureaucratic organization
- Very poor Human Ressource Department
- Quite low salaries
- Lack of internal motivation
- Slow moving and long internal processes

Pros

if you have no career aspirations work for thales they will leave you in a courner somewhere and still pay you how ever bad you are good for some.

working hours quite good

free coffee

Cons

dated environment with poorly untrained managers and staff at all levels.
no career development whatsoever unless you are a friend of a friend.
buck passing at every level
unfriendly staff
manager`s submit too much pressure onto employees.

Advice to Senior Management

leave