Does Composite Engineering Inc pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Composite Engineering Inc employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Composite Engineering Inc. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Composite Engineering Inc?

45% of Composite Engineering Inc employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Composite Engineering Inc 2.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.1 for culture and values and 2.6 for career opportunities.

What are the cons of working at Composite Engineering Inc according to real employee reviews?

"A lot of favoritism among management and certain employee." ((in 4 reviews))

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Composite Engineering Inc Reviews

2.7

45% would recommend to a friend

(19 total reviews)

Amy Fournier

Not enough data to show CEO approval

10% positive business outlook

Company ratings over time

Ratings trend for the last 6 months (19 reviews)

Composite Engineering Inc has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 19 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Composite Engineering Inc employee rating is 24% below average for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

Reviews by job title

19 reviews

4.0

2 Apr 2018

Configuration Data Administrator

Configuration data administrator

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Great atmosphere working with creative Engineer's to explore the endless possibilities of drones. Working with the DoD to manage military contracts was a great experience.

Cons

Losing funding and having a mass reduction in workforce.

4.0

14 Dec 2017

Lots of work to do, so little time...

Engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

- Interesting projects to work on - Well intentioned co-workers and management (you'll see this shortly in the Cons too) - Some cutting edge technology (and some dull technology) - Kratos Corporate is looking for the UAV group to deliver (lots of R&D money and political support) * Note other comments about being run by a tyrant were from an earlier management regime time. 2013/2014/2015 there was a big change when CEi was bought by Kratos, the founders left the company, and there were a bunch of layoffs.

Cons

- Small company playing with the large DOD companies, we often find ourselves out of depth (agreeing to contracts with not enough time or money to execute, planning, etc). - Corporate infrastructure is clunky and holds things back (proposal process, purchasing, IT, configuration management, etc). Generally, the company has not invested in enterprise level process tools to streamline day-to-day business functions (instead it has compounded problems by weakly merging acquired companies together and then added more bureaucracy on top). - Communication up and down the management chain. - Well intenetioned co-workers and management (short sighted decisions and stove piped teams make for dysfunction)

4.0

1 Apr 2017

Great Place to Learn about High Performance UAV's

Mechanical engineer

Recommend

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Pros

This is a relatively small company working on large DOD contracts competing with Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, Raytheon, etc. There is plenty of opportunity for good engineers to learn new skills and to be a key contributor to the big picture. It is easy to be noticed and move up quickly. On the other hand, poor performance is also noticed quickly due to the nature of a small organization. Engineers here are not pigeon holed and are able to work on a multitude of projects requiring various technical skills.

Cons

This company suffers from the typical growing pains of a small company going big. Sometimes programs are underbid and understaffed.

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