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Collins Aerospace

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Collins Aerospace reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(4,751 total reviews)

Troy Brunk

53% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Collins Aerospace has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,751 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Collins Aerospace employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Luft- & Raumfahrt, Verteidigung industry (3.6 stars).

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5K reviews
1.0
Jan 19, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

BE Aerospace location management is still ok; their hands are unfortunate tied by the upper management at UTC.

Cons

Ever since Rockwell Collins (Legacy BE Aerospace) was bought by UTC, it has turned out to be a disaster. They took away our free Friday breakfast. They took away some holidays like MLK day (and substituted with forced holidays in end of December). They took off our nice holiday parties. They took away our right to have 2 car tags (what a hassle switching one car tag between 2 vehicles). They also refuse to give us their good benefits such as sick days, etc. Still no comp or flex time. The results of the Pulse review (to voice our dissatisfaction) they provided didn’t yield any fruit. It seems like chimps are running the upper management @ UTC.

2.0
May 23, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The Aerospace Industry is interesting and one can learn a lot by all the hats one needs to put on throughout each day. A lot of different programs, so you don't have to get bored by one program or specific product year after year.

Cons

Senior/Executive Management works in tune with senior executive management and seldom communicates with anyone lower than a Director. They do not see the smoking screens and lies that are put out by their direct reports. They are poor at giving praise or constructive feedback, but expect a higher standard from others. They protect protect their own groups to protect themselves with anger and vigor instead of truly improving. They work in their own silo, and fight among each other. Everyone I worked with felt the senior manager in charge of the facility was winging it, and didn't really care. Saw the person lie more than tell the truth. Just because someone speaks well in a meeting, doesn't mean they are managing correctly. In the end, they don't know the true health of a facility because they are not engaged. Biggest problem is their ego thinks they do know.

2.0
Feb 13, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

One of the best teams I've ever worked with up until recently/split up. Honestly I considered this my perfect job and some of the best leaders and mgmt I've had my entire career. Up until they themselves got burned out or saw the buyout coming and jumped ship before that. Its almost impossible to fire someone once they've been brought on full time

Cons

Poor benefits package/healthcare is high deductible BS. Newly promoted managers don't know how to lead or take accountability for their poor/hasty decisions and instead try to blame anyone on their team without a second thought. Half of the management team has zero security background and more or less lied and BS'd their way into their current role and are now in over their head and scrambling to cover their rear.. In doing so will always throw their own team under the bus to whoever will listen at the first chance. Nothing ultimately gets done about the situation because the next level up of mgmt could care less as long as they aren't affected by this persons actions or poor decisions. The two new managers have no guidance or idea of how to take criticism or hear out ideas that are not their own and its due to lack of training and leadership skills started micromanaging the department and resources. Over the last 3 months there has been so much micromanagement and miscommunication that now certain projects that had no issues before are now dangerously close to running over budget and past deadline. Had people been left alone to do their jobs and given the original time allocations and deadlines (which will suddenly get moved up despite there being no rush or reason or bonuses for completing early) This boils down to the people calling the shots having no experience with these specific tools and the time it takes to tune/troubleshoot/configure the systems. Instead they pull a number out of a hat and say "it should only take 2 hours for you to complete that task!" yet have no idea how long it actually takes having never done it themselves. This has now resulted in what was once supposed to be a simple project and deployment and WAY more hours spent fixing the rushed issues that could have been avoided entirely had you just let people work and do what they're being paid for. The writing is on the wall and people are either interviewing for new jobs elsewhere, trying to transfer to a different department, or have left the company entirely. Contractors are used as human shields and blamed for things their mgmt instructed them to do that has now stepped on other departments toes. When all else fails, terminate their contract at the end of the day and blame them for the screw up.

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