General Atomics Reviews

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You are in so many meetings, it is hard to accomplish anything during work hours. You'll find yourself working late, or coming in early, in order to get anything accomplished.

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Suffering growing pains. Delegation can be problematic as high level executives get involved down at the lowest levels.

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Underpaid, the company still thinks we are in a recession so offers lower pay than a lot of other companies. Not much room for growth.

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Work isn't very challenging, environment is very impersonal and introverted

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Not all Management is good to work with. If you are going to work here do your research and get the truth from others in the department. I'm in manufacturing & we have great Leadership! Not all departments are equal, example Facilities, not good, lots of turnover. Director there is really bad, was sorta demoted. But still highly unprofessional conduct. We cannot get the service we need from them, not enough cubicles, offices. Huge million dollar mistakes made.

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Difficult to move up in position and salary.

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Review/ Raise system works backwards (raise us determined before review process is complete), unclear path for job growth, processes are ever changing and not well communicated, safety is not well prioritized, no company culture

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Big company so it takes time to get some things done

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Professional development is minimal due to the large employee currently staffed.

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Demographic balance is appalling. The level of basic educational knowledge and the abilities of many employees should be questioned. Manufacturing aeronautical structures requires fundamental skills that are not present due to the following: English is not the primary language of the workforce. If you can't speak or read in English, how do you interpret blueprints or understand engineering concepts? Training would be a good answer if you understood English. There are few lead personnel who are bilingual, yet do not fully comprehend what is involved in building a composite aircraft structure. There are numerous production personnel who can't read a label/direction/or use a gram scale to mix materials in accordance with manufacturer or GA instruction. The ignorance and unwillingness to change is a problem. Eliminate these problems and your productivity will excel. The aforementioned causes the greater percentage of quality defects that occur on a daily basis.