Low Pay, Low Morale, WLB - Software Engineer II General Atomics Employee Review

3.0
Jan 24, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- WLB is good. - 9/80 schedule

Cons

- Low Pay. SW2 will make 80-100k? - Tech is not there. Will be working on C/C++ from 1998, so not Modern C++ - Outdated processes like SVN, no scrum, CI/CD, or unit tests. Only manual integration tests - Code Reviews are almost non-existent - Have to keep going into office when there is COVID, so pretty unsafe and gives insight into upper management’s priorities - Raises are small(3-7%) and expect like a 2k bonus - Cafeteria is pretty overpriced. They say it’s “subsidized”, but it costs 10+ a meal. - Work is in Poway, so that absolutely blows too

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5.0
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Pros

Very good work life balance

Cons

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4.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

Good working environment Exciting projects Great coworkers (for the most part, like any place)

Cons

Like any maturing company, it has become more and more top-heavy, placing more and more emphasis on project management and milestones, sometimes over bread-and-butter engineering. I could have half the PMs I have now and do a better job

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