Collins Aerospace reviews

Upper leadership is out of touch with the organization. Recent layoffs, freeze in indirect hiring, halt of incentive program and promotions, and return to office policy (only a year after promoting "workplace of the future" hybrid and remote work). This has led to attrition (in addition to layoffs) that only further strains the organization. Leadership is not transparent about what went wrong at a financial planning level that led to this and talks down to employees with vague and tone-deaf lip service. If things do not change at an upper leadership level, there will be further attrition and strain that will put this company in a downward spiral.

I have found the culture to be very toxic and unproductive. The culture promotes adherence to processes and thinking outside of these boundaries is quickly eliminated. Additionally, alternative thinking is hindered by the heirarchical organization and fear of reprimand. This results in major bottlenecks and extreme effort just to fit something into existing processes. All decisions are funneled to senior engineer or manager, creating bottlenecks and additional time from (1) low amount of involvement/awareness of any individual project and (2) having to redo work because it was done differently than they would have done it. Many of the employees exude insecurity, resulting in them being negative and passive agressive. There is a strong culture of shaming people into behaving the same way as everyone else. Additionally, many delays and unneccessary work result from people trying to prove how they are smarter than everyone or can take on so much work.