Good Job Security, Poor Employee Retention, Inexperienced Workforce, and Management Lives in a Bubble - Senior Engineer - Systems General Dynamics Electric Boat Employee Review

- Poor Engineering Workforce Retention Rate: EB does not offer a competitive salary compared to the other military defense companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Bell Textron, etc. As a result, you might find yourself in a group, with a majority of inexperienced engineers, and with less than 5 years experience, trying to pick up the pieces on a project where someone else left off at because they have suddenly left the company. - Management is very detached from the working level and is ignorant of the competency of their workforce. They expect engineers with little to no shipbuilding experience to absorb the knowledge retained and perform similar to engineers who have 5-20+ years of shipbuilding experience. - Poor Culture/Attitude: In my experience, the majority just do the bare minimum and keep their head down, until the next opportunity pops up external to the company, some even openly state so in the work area which is demoralizing. People are sharing what their salaries and merit increases with each other to get a better sense of where they stand in terms of compensation, and that plays a large factor as to why many experienced engineers leave if they're not tied down to the area due to family.