perfect place for useless people - Senior Software Engineer Bombardier Employee Review

1.0
11 Apr 2018
Recommend
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Pros

~ hiring process was good. interview and offer given on same day. ~ free lunch started after lot of bad glassdoor reviews. ~ salary offered initially was good

Cons

~ old technologies used and no focus on innovation. ~ everyone works on non programming projects. no good c /c++ /c# product development work except some work in tools team and atp product. ~management has no clue what they want to do. managers do not do anything for people and waste time of employees by suggesting useless ideas. ~ no value of agile process and scrum masters. ~ junior engineers write requirements in some projects and no focus on quality. ~ hr is never available for addressing concerns. ~ over-management by managers without knowing the actual processes. ~no value of senior engineers . senior engineers are always blamed for failures and given bad ratings whereas junior engineers enjoy foreign trips, long tea breaks and get good ratings. ~bad hikes for hardworking people. heard this year there will be even worse hike then before. ~ senior leadership does not listen to anyone except one manager. ~no mnc culture. infrastructure is very bad. ~ framework for promotion is completely missing and promotion is only given to relatives of managers or people who do not have any skill set. ~ even the lifts do not work properly. everyday someone is stuck in the lift. ~ work assignment is not based on skills and done randomly. ~ no proper project planning and all mistakes are hidden for people who are close to senior management. ~ managers have no development plan and strategy for anyone.

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5.0
1 Jan 2026
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Pros

Good benefits, healthy corporate culture and good work life balance.

Cons

Large corporation with decisions taken centrally makes it difficult for employees in satellite to feel supported sometimes. Career opportunities may be limited in the satellites particularly for non French speaking employees.

2.0
2 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Lets start with what they do well... You get to work on some amazing aircraft. Which is valuable for a resume. The work environment is more controlled than airlines. The pace is VERY structured. (if thats something you prefer) Benefits are overall good, 401k options are great.

Cons

There is a clear favoritism issue going on. Advancement, opportunities, and even being chosen for training is definitely not performance based... Its more about who you know.. If you aren't part of the in crowd you will DEFINITLY get overlooked. Some techs come in and get immediately sent to training or placed in a lead role and others wait patiently for years and never get an opportunity. Leadership is inconsistent, (i experienced five GMs in my time there.) Each one wanted things done completely differently. The shop floor is left with its heads spinning each time.. Concerns from the floor never translate to actions.. Processes are very cumbersome. They have to have an entire team dedicated to fixing issues their new maintenance tracking software (Maximo) creates on a daily basis. Pay in Dallas is also not up to market standard for the area. Ethics is nonexistent and HR is even worse. Even the Ethics ambassador for the site has reported it multiple times to the ethics committee. Lots of the Supporting roles have been filled with family of Management which creates deficiencies in departments like Planning, CPMs Etc. Someone needs to seriously look into the hiring practices.

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