Lots of squandered potential. - Individual Contributor General Atomics Employee Review

2.0
Apr 2, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good experience for resume. Learning how to deal with difficult people. Seeing firsthand many of the cliche business 101 mistakes immature companies must overcome on their way to becoming well run organizations.

Cons

Politics. Subject Matter Experts being ignored by less experienced people who were over-promoted into management. High turn-over of some of the best talents leads to high levels of loss of institutional knowledge. Privately-owned means that much of the oversight recieved by publicly owned companies is not present. Siloed decisions are made based on the limited perspective of of small group of disconnected executives.

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5.0
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Pros

Very good work life balance

Cons

9 hour shifts 4 days a week

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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