Scaled Composites Reviews

4.0

93% would recommend to a friend

(50 total reviews)
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Greg Morris and Jenn Santiago

100% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Scaled Composites has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 50 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Scaled Composites 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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50 reviews
2.0
31 May 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of hours if you like that, good health plan that's 100% paid by the company, 3 weeks paid time off per year.

Cons

Pay is only 50 to 75% of what you'd make at similar companies. Overtime is practically mandatory (no official policy but I saw employees fired for refusing it), so forget about work-life balance. All the overtime is necessary to keep the projects on schedule, mostly because they're poorly planned and woefully disorganized. Because the pay is low and they prefer to train employees from the ground up, much of the lower management are very green in the industry and unqualified to lead in my opinion. Promotions and opportunities are extremely political; they don't value qualification as much as being friends with the right people.

3.0
4 Jul 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Scaled had many good things about it: the Hours, benefits, company lunches occasionally, quality assurance, supply of PPE, coffee, and facility

Cons

Couldn't get proper tools sometimes, young people politics, POOR leadership, worthless engineers, QA way behind, cut throat for contractors, unclear Directions and Engineering documents.

2.0
1 Apr 2017

Stepping stone

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Impossible to get fired. Laid back atmosphere. No accountability. Free soda in the conference rooms. Great for socializing instead of working.

Cons

Inept management, corrupt HR department, apathetic supervisors. It seems the less you do, the faster you get promoted. I've had leads ask me how to do the most basic functions and somehow they get paid more than me. I've also seen a few of them sleep for extended periods of their shift and not get reprimanded. These people are responsible for your performance review/raises.

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