Supportive colleagues but poor middle management and high turnover
Supportive colleagues but poor middle management and high turnover
- The people you work with are all in the same mindset, and you feel part of the company pushing the aerospace industry forward.
- One of the fastest moving industries where crazy ideas are developed.
- Lots of career opportunities once you enter the company.
- Middle management is not good. They will shuffle you around and put you under people that don't know your job (or even theirs). Over 10 people left/let go in my team in under 1 year and they don't blink an eye at management as the problem. They will kill morale to check boxes.
- After almost 11 years with the company, they gave me the boot and only 2 months of severance
Learn your job, build morale, be more transparent and less robotic.
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Applications Software Developer
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Mechanical Engineer Starlink
United StatesOctober 10, 2023Technical mechanical engineering fundamentals questions. Cover all topics, including: * Heat transfer * Mechanics of materials * Materials science * Machine analysis, etc. Be prepared to talk through your problem-solving process out loud.
