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

"this was one of the best companies I ever worked for"

What do you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"culture"

"Wonderful company with many advancement opportunities."

"Hughes used to be a great place to work."

What do you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"When I was there I always had plenty of interesting and challenging work and work which was important to Hughes success."

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

"Don't bother at the moment. Hughes has lost a number of major contracts and currently has too many people."

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

"Hughes has developed a corporate culture in which large teams are assembled to do anything but by the time you strip away the layers of managers and the junior people who are not yet technically knowledgeable, there are only a few left to do the work."

"Great place to work"

What do you like about working at Hughes Network Systems?

"Family like atmosphere, close networking and good job ethics."

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

"Thorough knowledge of your key attributes"

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

"A little bit Corporate politics"

"Excellent experience in satellite environment."

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."

"Stability without any growth potential."

"Great working experience in my career."

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."

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"

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."