Collins Aerospace reviews

Pay rates are far below what the labor market demands to keep your monthly costs below 30% of your gross income. Watching corporate tell you how much profits (in billions $) they've made year after year while living in a HCOL area and making barely enough to keep a roof over your head sucks. They make a 3% merit raise sound like the bees knees while housing costs greater than 50% of my income. This year housing costs are 5% higher. This trend has been going on for years without any measurable change from mgmt. Some of the "benefits" are decent, but HR and others use that as an excuse to not pay more.

Speaking of one particular business unit, there seems a much greater and unwarranted empahsis on cost-containment and risk-aversion measures than risk-taking innovation and advancements. Engineering labor is at capacity in meeting contract and product sustainment demands, at the expense of innovation, R&D, rapid prototyping of prospective products or improvements, and job satisfaction. The delegation of authority and management system procedures are heavy-handed, complex, centralized, and not so tailorable to the needs for agility and autonomy at the indivudual business sites and value streams.