Ball Aerospace Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Road warrior position that nearly destroyed my marriage"

What do you like about working at Ball Aerospace?

"It was a secure position and most of my colleagues were excellent to work with."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Appear as professional as possible, answer all questions honestly, and be clear and consise about what you're looking for in your career."

What don't you like about working at Ball Aerospace?

"Ball as a coroporation was very touchy/feely. If you weren't part of that clique then it became very hard to fit in. Additionally, the travel was far more than I could handle."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Maybe to be a little more open minded to allowing work to be done locally rather than ademately require on site presence."

"Getting to know you better!"

What do you like about working at Ball Aerospace?

"Ball has been around over 127 years and their keys to success (close to the customers; creativity and imagination; behave like owners; attention to details; and built on strengths) are the primary reason why they have been successful. Employees live by these principles and its a great place to work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Go to our website and review our company history and see our products."

What don't you like about working at Ball Aerospace?

"Once you get to the Director level the promotion opportunities are limited."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None. I feel very comfortable to discuss issues and concerns with out top management team. I have done this in the past and I will continue to do it in the future. Our management team are open and they encourage us to speak to them about our concerns"

"Ball is not a real ball"

What do you like about working at Ball Aerospace?

"The time off"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepaired for no advancement and no support from the team."

What don't you like about working at Ball Aerospace?

"The management and the way that employes are treated"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To look more at being a real team instead of being a buddy club"

"it was ok."

What don't you like about working at Ball Aerospace?

"the fact that they closed the plant down."

"Ball is a lifestyle job."

What do you like about working at Ball Aerospace?

"A high-tech company with smart, motivated employees, plus management that supports a work-life balance."

"Badly managed company. Lost expected contracts."

"Great opportunity and diversity with plenty of challenge and opportunity."

What do you like about working at Ball Aerospace?

"I liked the job & the initial challenge of learning all about the cnc mechanics"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"To be honest & express knowledge & experience to help the company become a better workplace"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To be patient & let the experienced people have a say so on problem solving"

"Outstanding employer!"

What do you like about working at Ball Aerospace?

"Everything!"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you're brought in for an interview, you'll probably be offered employment."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"No comment."

What do you like about working at Ball Aerospace?

"Get to work on some pretty cool space systems from design all the way to launch."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"For the most part it isn't a bad place to work but it definitely is behind the times in a lot of aspects."

What don't you like about working at Ball Aerospace?

"The management team is always constantly battling and it trickles down to us workers and becomes our fault for their mess."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would bring the company into the 21st century. We build state-of the art satellite systems but use Windows XP PCs...Come on guys get with the times!"

"Just another defense contractor that does some science and other cool things. Aside from the coolness aspect of working on Space (if you're lucky to get one of those projects), there's nothing special anymore."

"I’ve worked for Ball Aerospace for a little less than a year and while the people are fantastic and there are brilliant engineers working there the management leaves a lot to be desired. I was originally hired by the lidar deep learning team to head there Flash Lidar deep learning research but was moved to a different project the day before I started. This was done because management justified it as dollars on the table since any engineer would be billed directly to our customer on this contract. I wasn’t allowed to move or work on what I was hired to for this reason I’m looking for other work. If you get places on a project you want it’s fantastic and you’ll work with brilliant people in a good atmosphere but beware fiefdoms and middle management."

"Ball aerospace is growing very quickly and has grown from 2500 to 5500 employees in the last 4 years. This presents a massive challenge and only a company with strong management skills could pull this off. The company is so poorly managed that it is in react and fire fighting mode and doesn't make an effort to consider systemic and strategic directional changes to sustain continued growth. The line about having to "wear multiple hats" at a smaller company is true. Expect to wear 5 hats at Ball."

"Ball Aerospace is going through a lot of growing pains."