Pros
1. Beautiful campus on the river for engineering. 2. Extremely nice and knowledgeable mentors (though some are exhausted from constantly training the revolving engineers). Most of the employees are young. 3. Decent starting pay (although Connecticut has a very high cost of living). 4. Company has been forced to take a hard look at itself in the mirror or they will lose gov contracts because of the problems in the yard caused by a constantly revolving workforce. This core values realization may lead to a better working environment, such as capital improvements 20 years overdue to the shipyard offices and a restoration of the benefits that have been slowly eroding since 2015. 5. Very casual dress policy. 6. Decent cafeteria and gym in NL campus. 7. Company pharmacy and medical clinic are very good (not the yard hospital).
Cons
1. Parking 2., Expected to do work that is too advanced for a first job because no one is left to teach you (many retiring and others planning to retire when the company freezes the pension like GE just did) 3. Horrible HR department abundant with nepotism hires of people who were not educated or trained in HR who seem to work independently without any guidance from their management. HR seems to have their hands in more areas and have more power than other companies. 4. Buildings are not maintained to the point where they affect morale and also cause health problems of the office workers in Groton, while at the same time a weird health initiative tries to encourage you to be healthy outside of work. Makes no sense. Seems more cost effective to maintain the buildings. 5. Unfair advancement of "special" demographics to make up for years of discrimination - causing some of the "special' people to be in a role they are not capable of doing, which reinforces the negative attitude toward "special" people. If EB had been non-discriminatory all along, there would be actual, older "special" people in those roles without the hiring frenzy of today. While they are overcompensating for some "special" groups, they are clearly age discriminating, leading to early retirements and morale issues of the elders. 6. Network infrastructure antiquated and incredibly slow. Search engine is a joke. Design tool is horrendous. 7. Forced shutdown at Christmas where you have to use up your vacation time (other defense contractors and Pfizer don't do this) 8. Raises are not good. They withhold 1% of your raise to give you as a bonus, so your base pay only increases 2% each year, leading to salary compression and subsequently attrition. 9. Not many women here in engineering, likely because of EB's reputation of being a boy's club. 10. Forced to take a 30 minute lunch every day, add on to the parking problem, the average 8 hour day becomes 9.5 hours. 11. No telecommuting offered ever. 12. Flexible hours really depend on your supervisor. 13. If you want drinking water at work, you have to pay for it - no kidding.