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Pros
General work/life balance is good (in 41 reviews)
Excellent working environment in fairly new facility on large campus at Crawley (in 43 reviews)
Cons
Working on Bids will kill your work life balance (in 14 reviews)
Very poor senior management with hidden agendas solely focussed upon their individual advancement (in 22 reviews)
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"Great place to work with top notch engineers"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Thales full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
You are always pushed/encouraged to grow as a developer. Always updating tech stack to the latest and greatest. Probably the most tech savvy engineers I have worked with. Great benefits.
Cons
Depending on the project the deadlines can be unrealistic
Thales 2017-07-06 13:34 PDT ![Thales Logo]()
"Overall Great Company - Super Cool Technology"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Thales full-time
Pros
Lots of great and diverse technology. The technology is really interesting and provides interesting work. Work with really smart and talented folks.
Cons
HR Leadership lacks US knowledge & Expertise - this bleeds into all other areas of business - including large expat leadership make up in US.
Advice to Management
Hire local/in country talent in leadership positions and listen to in country expertise about most agile and effective way to run business.
Thales 2017-08-15 01:16 PDT![Thales Logo]()
"Corrupt Management and Nepotism at a different level!!"
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Negative OutlookI worked at Thales full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Great company to work for that invests in its employees, excellent benefits (especially PTO & 401K - hard to find anything close to what they offer anywhere else)
Cons
Although company theoretically wants to invest in its employees, this is often not applied due to terrible management who is out to protect their positions and salaries and could care less about the development of their reporting employees. You have directors and VPs who hire their family members (nepotism) - their family members cost the business millions of dollars but at the end of the day, no one can say or do anything to these individuals.
They keep laying off the little people in order to meet their end of year budget so that senior management and executives could all get their bonuses. Corrupt management to say the least.Advice to Management
Stop driving the business to the ground by selfishly protecting your positions and hiring incompetent family members
Thales 2017-08-15 09:05 PDT![Thales Logo]()
"Confused company"
StarStarStarStarStarDoesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Thales full-time
Pros
Excellent benefits and salary package
Cons
Lot of confusion regarding technical ownership
Advice to Management
Define roles
Thales 2017-07-31 09:13 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Looks good on the surface, once you see inside is a different story."
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Thales full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Benefits, PTO mirror that of European packages.
Cons
Management lacks creativity and becomes threatened by new blood. Makes for an uncomfortable work enviroment. Employees follow management and found a lot of office politics, two faced employees trying to get ahead.
Advice to Management
Clean house and get those bad eggs that are keeping you from becoming a source to be roconded with.
Thales 2017-07-28 08:46 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Vice President/General Manager"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookI have been working at Thales full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
Thales work culture is open and empowering with great benefits. The 9/80 work schedule is wonderful as every other weekend is 3 days long. Projects are cutting edge in the area of augmented reality which is booming. Thales Visionix products are flying on many US and foreign military platforms with great results. Its personally satisfying to speak with our customers as they really like the equipment and use it every day. As a result sales are growing as is the staff. The Thales Group provides ample opportunities for career growth both here in the US and internationally. By far the best place I have ever worked.
Cons
I have no complaints at this time.
Thales 2017-06-22 14:17 PDT![Thales Logo]()
"Good benefits and work life balance"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Thales full-time
Pros
20 days PTO as a new hire.
Cons
Too many proceesses to get a simple task done.
Thales 2017-07-11 06:14 PDT![Thales Logo]()
"Thales - Aurora, IL"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Thales full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Exciting technology and fun company to work for! Relaxed atmosphere and very flexible work schedule. Every other Friday off is a great benefit. Good teamwork and very honest management team.
Cons
No job is perfect but I don't have any complaints.
Thales 2017-06-23 07:42 PDT![Thales Logo]()
"Good company, nice perks"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Thales full-time
Pros
Good salary, good opportunities if you work hard enough. Some people are really masters in their own domain and are very inspiring.
Cons
Old style management. Your progression in the company will be stuck if you are not old enough or if you don't come from the right school. Leave when this happens
Thales 2017-06-15 14:26 PDTHelpful (3)
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"HR Leadership is only out for themselves"
StarStarStarStarStarDoesn't RecommendI worked at Thales full-time
Pros
There are some very talented people that work in irvine
Cons
The compensation is on the low side.
Advice to Management
Invest in your people. Stop worrying about climbing the corporate ladder and appreciate your people that are working hard for you.
Thales 2017-06-23 15:51 PDT
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