Bell Reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(1,376 total reviews)

Mitch Snyder

88% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Bell has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,376 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bell employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace and defence industry (3.6 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
11 Dec 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Vacation policies, although worse than they used to be, are better than most companies. Pay is decent, but tiny merit raises are eating into that too. Great people. Some of the programs are very well run. The new CEO, Mitch Snyder seems to be intent on turning the company around.

Cons

Morale is the worst I have ever seen after several years of quarterly layoffs. There is too much emphasis on promoting very junior level employees with big egos. For this reason, much of the management utilizes intimidation to cover up their shortcomings since they weren't ready for those levels of responsibility. Cutbacks in quality controls and corrective action initiatives have led to a decrease in quality. Outsourcing has also been handled terribly and vendors seem to be more in control of the product than Bell. Finally, the poor implementation of a new ERP has led to tremendous losses due to decreased functionality.

3.0
25 Jul 2016

Good short term employer

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The pay was a little above average, benefits from Textron are good, very cool scenery (helicopters) constantly flying in and out.

Cons

Lack of sound business decisions from the top down. They claim the business is doing great, and we need to hire a lot of people, but then a few months later there are widespread layoffs. This happened almost annually during the length of my employment.

3.0
15 Jul 2016

Great pay but...

Recommend
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Pros

Great pay and better than lical average

Cons

No job security and too many political games

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