69 Principal Systems Engineer Reviews
Principal Systems Engineers give their job an average rating of 4.0 out of 5.0. The Principal Systems Engineers happiest with their jobs are employed by Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies with an average rating of 5.0 while the Principal Systems Engineers least happy with their jobs work for Amtrak with an average rating of 2.1.
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"I worked as a Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer in the Systems Engineering group, but actually wrote software in addition to developing advanced algorithms involving Newtonian Physics, Calculus and Differential Equations. There is nothing I hate about it."
"I love to be a Principal System Engineer. I can apply all the background I got from college and previous work to the current job. I can get the job done with confidence."
"As a systems engineer I have been involved in projects from beginning to end. Seeing a design progress from a blank sheet of paper to a final product is satisfying."
"I love the job and did it well."
"I love everything about the position and it's the challenges which are worth getting out of bed everyday to conquer!!There is nothing bad about this position because my passion for technology allows me to take anything others would consider bad and treat it like a challenge. After all the purpose is to create!!"
What do you like about working at Ben Venue Laboratories?
"Energetic, dynamic, fun, non-routine, rewarding, honesty, openness, collaborative, trust and freedom."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"No work life balance, hardworking and lots of documentation and paperwork."
What don't you like about working at Ben Venue Laboratories?
"Bureaucratic, routine, close loop, non-rewarding, double standard, dishonest, untrustworthy, non-flexible and too structure."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Trust your experience workers; listen to them to harvest ideas and support innovation."
What do you like about working at Raytheon?
"The technology is cutting edge for flight vehicles. An employee has a vast set of opportunities and jobs that can be pursued."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Ask questions about job mobility, opportunities, and the location. Ask to speak with less senior engineers to understand climate."
What don't you like about working at Raytheon?
"The company is very large and, at times, very inefficient. Passionate people may find the culture slow."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Change the development model and provide agile, high-risk/high-reward opportunities for passionate people."
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"Great place to work until down turn in government contracts."
What do you like about working at Raytheon?
"Good team work and sence of belonging on the team, not as good as the legacy Hughes Aircraft Company which was the foundation of the battlefield radar business."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Weather out the poor economy. Jobs will return. There are some jobs, but very selective and in a downsizing mode now."
What don't you like about working at Raytheon?
"Not enough empowerment of the workers to proceed in the optimal path for success."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Listen to the technical experts more and less the finacial planners. Performance only can happen with technical ability, not frugal optomistic schedules."
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"As a contractor the experience has been good"
What do you like about working at Rockwell International Corp.?
"As a contractor I have been treated with respect and given quality work to perform."
What don't you like about working at Rockwell International Corp.?
"I have no dislikes about the company an would recommend RCI to anyone."
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"awful"
What do you like about working at L-3?
"no, the company does not strive to retain good qualified employees."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"this company does not retain the best employees in its workforce; they hire and layoff often."
What don't you like about working at L-3?
"bosses are arbritrary in their approach to task assignments and people assignments."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"replace all of them with ones that don't lie or cheat."
What do you like about working at Rockwell Collins?
"Rockwell has groups that are involved with state of the art designs. Very dedicated selection of hard working engineers with highly disciplined skills."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"The company hires top notch engineers and they do pay for performance. The work is challenging and young engineers will learn much from the various programs they have ongoing in both military and commercial sectors."
What don't you like about working at Rockwell Collins?
"Current mood is not good with several RIF's in the planning. The word from corporate is many jobs are going to be outsourced."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Corporate management is divided into the commercial and military sectors. Currently the military sector is downsizing while the commercial sector is holding its own. The corporate vision is to expand the business corporate enterprise goal is to gain more market share in the international business."
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