Not A Fulfilling Job - Test Engineer HII Employee Review

2.0
24 Jul 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible Schedule You can certainly move up in this company, but that seems mostly due to attrition. Your advancement is a function of time, not ability. It does seem senior management is making efforts to increase the benefits of working here. I also think their response to COVID-19 has been very appropriate, often implementing changes well before they become requirements. Great job outlook as they have a monopoly on nuclear ship construction.

Cons

Poor management. I have up to eight people that act as a manager that often conflict with on another. One will direct a certain action, while another will interrupt that action and tell you to do something else that they claim has priority. They also fail to invest in new employees. They expect a high turnover and as such will not invest in you until you have been there for some time. In my year as an employee this is the sole reason my coworkers (five) have left the company. Expect to work weekends or second/third shift on short notice. Expect to go into seven day work weeks for 2-4 weeks at a time.

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Cons

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Pros

Remote Work, Flex Schedule, Benefits are decent enough.

Cons

It is very much a boys club between management, leads, and HR. HR is there to protect the company, not you. The moment you have something crazy happen (and you will because most people in positions of power are old retired navy guys who cant even work a computer usually and would rather praddle on about "the good ole days") and you report it to HR, you immediately will be retaliated against, even when HR says you wont. Its tough to say how you wont when they immediately inform your supervisor. I also hate how they are an "inclusive" company, and yet I have been called more slurs and received more backlash for being LGBT when its not even being presented, I just want to log in, work, ask questions, log off.

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