Great for most, but if not great for you, really not great...
Pros
The company, on the whole, does great work for their clients and houses a lot of hard working, stellar people and talent. The leadership, for the most part, is good, and the president has a forward thinking way of running the company. He is a solid, supportive leader who has worked alongside his father (the founder) to drive change and adopt progressive values to develop a contemporary business culture. It is just sad to see this undermined by some of the long-tenured leadership at BIW. Good work life balance, for most. There are a lot of perks to working here.
Cons
There are a lot of perks and "fun" elements to working here but it at times appeared to be a band-aid for the larger issues and ultimate change/growth needed to meet the overall values of the company and vision of the President. The benefits are not great. Way low on the pay scale. There are a lot of tenured employee's (20+ years, this being the only company or position they have worked at since college), that stifles the cultural growth, work styles, and skill sets needed to make this a diverse company where a new way of doing things, and the people needed to make the change, are truly accepted en masse. If you don't fit, you may be pushed out through questionable behaviors on the part of Sr. Leadership and management. If you are a tenured "like" employee that is part of the "family", it seems you can get away with murder for the most part and act like spoiled, petty, entitled, children. Employees are rewarded for being perceived as "nice" (MN Nice), fitting in, and being liked or popular. Kind of like High School. If you drink the Kool-Aid, get along, keep your mouth shut, and eat your free food truck food, you will do fine. If you are there to drive change, make improvements, or be innovative, you may struggle depending on how your reporting structure is set up and what department you land in. This is a very middle class, caucasian, skewing on the side of conservative, suburban work environment with little to no cultural diversity beyond a small community of Indian employee's and a handful of other POC's (who tend to stick to themselves, understandably). If you are anything other that the norm here, you may not have an easy time acclimating, being accepted, feeling comfortable,being supported, or advancing in this company. If you do speak up, you may be viewed as the problem, and most likely will be systematically punished and/or pushed out. Little opportunity for advancement as people don't leave their position or the company. There is little to no movement in desirable areas and most of the current openings or opportunities are in the technology areas. I have never worked at a company where they had so many people, that were low contributors, low performers, are disgruntled, with high expectations and levels of entitlement, waiting out their time so they could retire. There is an unhappy, archaic, core here and I feel the company will thrive once the turnover happens in the next 5-10 yrs or so...There seems to be an "old" BIW culture which is still festering with archaic business practices, ego, entitlement, and fear while hindering the development of the new. So, if you like to hang out at work and with your co-workers, "having fun", drinking free beer and eating free food truck food in lieu of being respected for who you are, being paid what you are worth, and having the opportunity to be mentored, supported, and to advance in your career. BI WORLDWIDE is the right place for you. (I would not be surprised if this post is commented on by HR leadership, like previous posts have been on Glassdoor, to the tune that I was not "an employee who was interested in my own success", or some other something. That could not be further from the truth. Leaving was an incredibly hard decision to make for me but one I do not regret, at all.)