It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - Anonymous employee Austal Employee Review

3.0
11 Mar 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of very dedicated people who are determined to do a great job and just keep going and going despite how useless the equipment and systems are and how undermanned they are. It's great to work on a boat and see it sail away.

Cons

There are some very average managers who have been there a long time. Very entrenched relationships with each other and no-one is going anywhere. Not interested in accountability for their bad decisions and consistent opportunities for senior managers to tell the story in their own favour instead of being made to own up to what is not working and fix it.

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5.0
3 Dec 2024
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Pros

One of my favorite things from Austal is that they constantly offer on the job training

Cons

One of the cons of Austal is that I could not be trained in more than one skill.

2.0
14 Dec 2025
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Pros

There was some, but that went away

Cons

Watch over your shoulder, track every minute as a salary employee, and they build really crappy boats. You'll have to work with ancient software.

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