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Submit a ReviewWhat do you like about working at General Dynamics?
"We build one of the most complex systems on the planet."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"If you want to work here for the rest of your life, take the job."
What don't you like about working at General Dynamics?
"There really isn't much room for creativity, they discourage it. They have a system that has worked for a hundred years and they don't want to change."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"I would make sure my employees are happy enough to do the work they were hired to do."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"It's a solid company to work for with many regulations and guidelines that make it appealing."
What don't you like about working at Hewlett-Packard?
"The very long hours that you are expected to put in when there is a problem."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"It's such a multifaceted company, it would be hard to show what is different unless all the facts were known."
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"Terrible company culture and work environment, terrible management."
What do you like about working at Rockwell Collins?
"Cedar Rapids good for family life. Great business growth since mid decade, although doubtful future prospects.Technical work is interesting if you find the right projects to work on (but terrible management and culture is a huge drain)."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"I would recommend you do your own research to find out if the project you are working has a good work environment. If you do not get information, just opt out for better companies."
What don't you like about working at Rockwell Collins?
"Company propaganda: Rockwell Collins is about integrity and goes by the book on principles. Fact: I discovered that for people that are connected inside the old boys/gals circle, integrity and ethics are mere convenience. They can juggle and flip it any way they want to suit their own agendas. Key people including people in Management, HR and Ombudsman are involved in behaviors that Rockwell should not be proud of. In addition, what I see in Glassdoor from other bloggers and what I heard and saw inside the company is not encouraging. Employee made to believe: Rockwell middle managers in Engineering are focused on providing customer value and will put themselves on the line to achieve it. Fact: In my experience and observation (and getting information from several quarters), the middle managers and long-time engineers are coasting along and need scapegoats to pass the buck. New hires with experience in other companies are particularly vulnerable. HR mentioned during new hire orientation that it is not what you know and are capable of doing that matters in this company but rather who you know. Employee is made to believe: Engineering managers and long-time engineer old boys/gals have good intent but it is just difficult personalities leading to difficult team dynamics. Fact: There is persistent and deliberate bullying and displacement of talent at Rockwell Collins perpetrated by people who are confident they have the support to get away with it. The support may go all the way up to Executives who seem callous when it comes to real issues inside teams, lest many problems would not exist. New employees especially with experience from other companies are easy target. Myth: Rockwell Collins has an inclusive work environment. Rockwell Collins has very high technical talent that is above and beyond. Fact: There is competition inside Rockwell on who excludes whom and people going to great lengths to edge people out. The rat race is encouraged by Management itself as some others in this blog have alluded to. Fact: Average talent base at Rockwell. Lot of people coasting along with no incentive to do real and great technical work, and many are doing work without trying to change the status quo. If anyone new comes along that have differing views, then just squash them. Paper pushers thrive. Crony behavior is rampant. Outsourcing to Asia, steep growth and density of foreign workers in Cedar Rapids as a proxy for competent leadership. Rockwell does not have it in its DNA to create a strong global culture either. Foreign workers have complaints about Rockwell as well. Myth: Foreign workers are needed because we are not able to find US citizens that have suitable qualifications. Fact: Employment of U.S based engineers and employee satisfaction inside the U.S are now closely linked to supply-demand characteristics of the global labor workforce. Management inevitably uses the path of least resistance to satisfy urgent psychological (ego and arrogance), sometimes for business needs by bringing in foreign workers at the expense of building a strong work-force domestically. If they have any disagreements with anyone, an easy step is to dislocate that worker and get a foreign worker that will obey all commands and orders without disagreements even if it is wrong for projects and products or better still just outsource the work to Asia to improve cost competitiveness. On the other hand, respect for foreign born workers is very low in this company. The company lacks diversity when it comes to synthesizing different viewpoints. Company leadership is unable to create teams where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Myth: In Rockwell Collins teams work by sharing, inclusion and collaboration and keep things transparent to all employees. All employees have free and fair opportunity. Fact: Engineering Leaders buy into rumors or maybe even create them. Rumors are rampant and generated particularly about employees that have innate curiosity and desire to do better and grow, but also bring expertise from elsewhere in the industry. Intellectual dishonesty is rampant among the old boys/gals Rockwell network. Verbal slurs are used if necessary to bully people. Innovation, product quality, product development cost, culture and professionalism are victims along with the bullied target."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"This is the lousiest set of management competencies assembled in one place that I have seen.Bring in decisive leadership and promote people who can execute with the right mindset and reasons. Do not expect positive business impact when you use fear, intimidation, rumors, coercion and other shenanigans on employees Command and Control works only in a predictable world. It is contrary to what is necessary for today's dynamic workforce with global competition.Embrace change. Bring leaders in that are reactive and not reactionary. Treating people who do real work like cattle is not the way of the future for society."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Make sure you are into environmental services or else its a pretty dirty job."
What don't you like about working at Metro Wastewater Reclamation District?
"There is no training on how to do your job or how the company works."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Be more progressive. Make the buildings look more modern and brighter."
What do you like about working at General Dynamics?
"I really enjoy working with all of my coworkers everyday."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Make sure that the work ethic of the group you are interviewing for matches yours. They differ greatly across the company. If it doesn't fit try and find a group that does."
What don't you like about working at General Dynamics?
"The people put in charge of innovation cannot even spell it."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Create a more collaborative, result focused work environment where doing the right thing for the right reason is always at the forefront."
What do you like about working at Allegro MicroSystems?
"very dynamic, projects always change, not a very large place"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"depends on the department, be honest, make sure you are dedicated"
What don't you like about working at Allegro MicroSystems?
"too many projects going on at once. not enough staff in the right technical areas."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"less high level oversight of projects and procedures, management should spend less time defining and more time doing"
What do you like about working at International Game Technology?
"I'm comfortable with the people I work with, the paycheck, the location, and the recognition from my boss I get for my work."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"I would tell them that knowledge of the gambling industry and games is not required but it is helpful."
What don't you like about working at International Game Technology?
"The processes for some things are broken. Leadership and a clear view of where we're going with projects is sometimes lacking. This causes all kinda of frustration."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Things change a lot in the industry but it would be nice to have a plan that we could really stick to."
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"Promises more than they will deliver to employees and customers"
What do you like about working at Materion?
"You get to work with great people on components for high tech items. The pay is less than competitive, but it is still money. You are heading in the right direction with allowing raises again, trust is not there though."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"I personally would not suggest working here until some changes have been made to the management. There have been a lot of changes due to the four rounds of layoffs, but none affect the areas that are causing issues. Such as the many projects that are going on, stressing resources, that are not progressing to optimized fruition. There needs to be better direction with qualified resources."
What don't you like about working at Materion?
"The equipment is out of date for the consistency, quality, and promises that Materion makes. The pay is in the lower 10 percentile for this region in Massachusetts and there are constant initiatives to reduce the take-home pay of every employee. There have been a total of four pay reductions over the past year, with more to come (for salary and hourly.)Management makes decisions and then worries about consequences much later, many directly affect employees. The general thought process is to do then think, with a lack of resources this thought process will lead to a demise."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Recognize total costs and not just book costs and think through all of your decisions. There is a lot of groupthink that pushes projects and initiatives along that should not be pushed through (you should look up groupthink.) There is no trust between the employees and management due to the deplorable decision making that has gone on."
What do you like about working at Heinz Co.?
"Some good people there but a bit out of control"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Not sure how to answer this one, remember Heinz is not an engineering company"
What don't you like about working at Heinz Co.?
"Lack of direction, lack of strategic thinking, ill defined roles"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Set a more strategic approach, develop five yeasr plans for marketing"
What do you like about working at Sinclair Broadcast Group?
"Forward thinking company with industry leading technology, they have many stations and good opportunity for growth"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"WOrk, hard and the company will take care of you."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"I personally haven't met the CEO, our stock does well, and we seem to be expanding,even in this down economy."
What do you like about working at Honeywell?
"There is no table pounding or in-your-face management. The pay is okay."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be happy with good pay as that's all you will get."
What don't you like about working at Honeywell?
"Benefits are reduced every year. Productivity programs (HOS they call it) are stupid. It's supposed to be modeled after Toyota but they totally miss the point, and no one except management thinks it's a good thing but they have to."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Reduce the number of management levels and not try to force productivity programs like they are some type of religion."
What do you like about working at Spirent Communications?
"Good, intelligent people at product development. Not so much from executive teams."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Working well with others, reliability and predictability is valued more highly than being brilliant."
What don't you like about working at Spirent Communications?
"Overloaded with work and very thin teams. Long term vision is sketchy"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Reward risk-taking leadership. Punish consensus-minded all talk and no action stallers."
What do you like about working at Avnet?
"Nothing much."
What don't you like about working at Avnet?
"Ridiculously unlikable boss."
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