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Collins Aerospace

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Good people, mediocre culture, really low bar for technical excellence - Senior Principal Software Engineer Collins Aerospace Employee Review

2.0
Oct 17, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I worked with the best people. My local management team were fantastic people, I miss them.

Cons

The cons are many, where to start? - risk averse to the point where it threatens the company's future - monotonous; actual career growth opportunities were few and far between for technical leaders - dense HR; they couldn't adjust to a high inflation environment at a time unemployment in the engineering workforce was at an all time low. The data was there but you didn't listen to it. -digital technology assets were poorly configured, poorly maintained, and too infrequently updated. I spent the last year of my time at Collins fighting with a computer that didn't work properly and a DT organization that didn't care. - promotion timelines were never clear; all of the vagueness and ambiguity convinced me that I was giving Collins my most productive years with nothing in it for me. If you want to be a great engineer, if you want to have an exciting career, this isn't the place.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

40 hr/wk Easy work for the pay Ability to use vacation with little notice Some leadership is willing to help you move up and increase pay quickly

Cons

Leadership does not communicate with one another Little room to move up or into another department without someone leaving Poor standards in comparison to other sites within the company Employees who do not meet efficiency standards receive no consequences and are not informed of process issues (leadership issue) Tribal knowledge seems to run the site, not standard work It is a family affair.

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