General Dynamics Information Technology Employee Reviews about "management"

Pros

Get paid to keep a chair warm.

Cons

100% Scam job to milk money off a contract. The management was nonexistent and the one manager we did have spent most of the day at a local bar. Literally got told to play video games for a year because there was no work to be done. Started looking for a new job the day I got there. RUN!

Pros

Independence. Good money for the level skills required. Easy entry.

Cons

Horrendously incompetent management and failure to listen to employee complaints and keep employees conduct in check.

Pros

Most of my pros were due to having a great manager: - Always respected - Gives a great deal of ownership (no micromanagement) - Great training throughout employment, learn a lot - Great work life balance - Great tight knitted team, occasional team lunch and occasional free bfast paid for by the business area - Other departments are mostly competent and there is good team work within the org - Overall, everyone is pretty sharp and owns their work - Upper management treats you with respect - Benefits include tuition reimbursement, health incentive payouts, etc

Cons

- Like most corporate offices, the raises are pretty disappointing unless your manager hooks it up - Some departments can fall short on carrying their weight and upper management are left to battle out whose job is what - Not necessarily a con but you gotta aggressively seek out promotion opportunities, they won't be given out easily. - 401k is okay, health benefits aren't bad but could be better

Pros

None! Avoid GDIT at all cost or they will damage your career................................................

Cons

Unstable management that likes to play mind games with their staff to maintain disorder and confusion. Bait & Switch tactics: Human Resources will make commitments that will not be delivered upon employment even though it's in writing. Will site a change in company policy as an excuse...................................

Pros

You would have the opportunity to work with some truly brilliant and gifted people. Physical working environment is adequate. Compensation is adequate, not spectacular.

Cons

This is not unique of course, but upper management is frequently disconnected and distant, and this has been more so since GDIT purchased this unit from Vangent. Realistically there is little opportunity for promotion or advancement. Middle management (Program Managers or Software Project Managers) might be very good or very bad depending on the individual -- there are some HUGE egos and in some cases that gets in the way of the work. If you expect or need any kind of praise, acknowledgment, or even respect, then work somewhere else, you will not get it here. And loyalty? There is none. A short time ago a friend of mine who had worked here 35 YEARS was laid off, and it was not performance related. It was, I think, a case of choosing to lay off someone who maybe had a somewhat higher salary than someone else, which IMO is a poor way to make a decision like that. That alone should tell you all you need to know.

Pros

Great organization that can help you grow in terms of team objective assignments

Cons

Bad management which needs some lessons on learning on how to develop people and help them grow within the organization.

Pros

Not a lot to say here. The other csr's are generally good people but rarely last after interactions with management.

Cons

I work at the sandy branch and I am here to tell you to avoid it at all costs. The lack of respect and trust from upper management is insulting, supervisors on power trips and promised incentives dishonored. This company still owes me money and anyone I ask about getting this money gives me the cold shoulder. Frankly this company could get in a lot of trouble for the way this branch is running things, the labor commission should be notified

Pros

I had a great experience with my team and I learned alot about systems that I have never worked with before.

Cons

Management support was hit or miss and often my concerns about the project went unheard. Basically we were told to just make things happen regardless of the concern.

Pros

Good location to work at, easy to take unpaid time off. Paid housing and tax free salary.

Cons

Program Manager on down micromanages to the point where they decide what type and fragrance of of toilet paper to order for the men's room. Very intrusive and demoralizing to morale. Company tries to scare off or fire people the last two years of the contract so they can be more competitive for the next contract- all that happens is the hard workers and knowledgeable staff leave and you have to do 3-4 jobs to make up the loss of those employees Absolutely ZERO employer loyalty to employees. Managers are all yes men who beat you up to get their misguided agendas/projects done and threaten to fire you if you don't comply. Good old boy network, management hires their buddies who most have no management skill or technical understanding. No one ever moves up, and the few that do get carrot dangling in front of them for salary increase until they get fed up and quit. New people not up to par with what is required to perform tasks. Problem employees allowed to create havoc and never get written up or counseled/removed. Pay raises ludicrous as seasoned staff gets less than one percent and clueless newcomers get 5%. Make you stay for three years by holding your relocation/repatriation back to US hostage. All other companies require only one year -this one requires 3. 401k a joke, they take it all back if you quit one day before being vested for the measly 3% they give you. Two years ago, payroll forgot to take out 401k deductions for a pay period and told people they had to do it themselves. Law does not allow you to do this so you lost one months deposit to your plan. HR non existent and doesn't work for you as a worker but for management. HR seems like they can never find people to come work for them in Overseas. Hundreds of open jobs and seldom any new hires. Extremely oppressive environment where most shops do nothing but look busy watching TV and push their work down lower shops shop whose managers have no clue how to fight back and not take it. Example is HD personnel doing network and IA shops job. Management totally condones this. Work entails putting out fires rather than being proactive and avoiding fires. Changes to procedures entails mandatory management meetings that includes all managers in contract who cannot appreciate or are even stakeholders, let alone understand what the change entails.

Pros

Opportunities for career advancement exist if you are willing to work hard, network, establish the right relationships and work long hours.

Cons

No work life balance exists. Managers seem to hire from the outside versus promoting from within. Not a lot of communication exists between upper management and the rest of the company.