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Working at Hughes Network Systems in Germantown, MD: 20 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Germantown, MD Area

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On average, employees in Germantown, MD at Hughes Network Systems give their company a 2.7 rating out of 5.0 based on 20, whereas overall Average Rating of Hughes Network Systems is 3.9 out of 5.0 based on 42 Hughes Network Systems Review Ratings. The happiest Hughes Network Systems employees in Germantown, MD are Technical Specialists submitting an average rating of 4.8 and Project Leads with a rating of 4.4.

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3.9
Average Rating
(based on 24 Hughes Network Systems Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
3.6
Growth Opportunities
3.4
People You Work With
4.4
Person You Work For
4.3
Rewards You Receive
3.6
Support You Get
4.0
Way You Work
4.0
Work Setting
3.9
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Working at Hughes Network Systems in Germantown, MD: 20 Employee Reviews

Hughes Network Systems Employee

"It is a great engineer based company with lots of talented people. Mixed quality of management team."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Hughes Network Systems Employee

"I've worked as an engineer for Hughes Network Systems since 2017, and I've found it to be an excellent company to grow technically with firsthand experience on impactful projects."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5

Company-Industry Rating Comparison

3.9
Hughes Network Systems (42)

4.8 Highest Rated in this Industry is Boot Camp Digital (5)
2.7 Lowest Rated in this Industry is Convention Data Services (5)
3.7 Average of All Companies in this Industry (3,471)
Hughes Network Systems Employee

"Hughes is a good company to start with. There are many smart engineers, but the salary is not very competitive."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Hughes Network Systems Employee

"Good company, good projects."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Contract Component Engineer

"I enjoyed the work and the people"

What do you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"The people. They were very supportive and would drop their work to help another."

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

"They are slow to make decisions. As a contractor they would wait until the last minute to renew."

What don't you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"The indecision of the management. Took a long time or waited until the last minute."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Lighten up. The CEO was too serious. never smiled and at times was abusive to underlings"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
QA Lead

What do you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"My immediate management was excellent and allowed me to expand the range of my experience from QA to project management."

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

"The environment can be excellent if make the effort to meet others outside of your own project. They can be helpful to yours."

What don't you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"Upper management was changing and seemed to be a bit uninterested in assuring that the contract would be awarded."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I understand this was Hughe's first major attempt at partnering with Boeing, but Boeing clearly was senior in that relationship. In hindsight, it was inevitable."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Member of Technical Staff

What do you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"same job day in and day out and lack of growth"

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

"HNS seems to be good for people having an EE background. Nothing great for CS folks"

What don't you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"less growth and same repititive work day in and day out"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"would have given the engineers some piece of the cake"

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Equipment Services Project Manager

What do you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"Very good environment for career advance in the communication industry"

What don't you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"I like working for the company. No information to offer."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Software Engineer

"Great working experience in my career."

Person You Work For 4.8 / 5 People You Work With 4.8 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3.1 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Project Lead
Person You Work For 4.5 / 5 People You Work With 4.9 / 5 Work Setting 4.8 / 5
Support You Get 4.8 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.4 / 5
Company Culture 4.4 / 5 Way You Work 4.9 / 5
Summer Intern
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3.6 / 5
Support You Get 3.9 / 5 Company Culture 3.6 / 5 Way You Work 3.9 / 5
Application Engineer

"Stability without any growth potential."

Person You Work For 1.1 / 5 People You Work With 2 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 2.1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1.2 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 1.2 / 5
Contractor
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 3.1 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Technical Specialist
Person You Work For 4.9 / 5 People You Work With 4.9 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.9 / 5
Company Culture 4.8 / 5 Way You Work 4.9 / 5
Systems Functionalist

What do you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"It was a fun place to work. I had to be at work by 5 am every day. I liked waking up early and going to work. I worked 12 hours every day. At the Hughes Network System I got hands one experience in Information Technology"

What don't you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"It was more like a warehouse environment. Although I enjoyed working there, I believe the management could use some kind of methodology to arrange the equipment so, it would look more like office environment than a warehouse."

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