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Bohemia Interactive Simulations

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One of the most innovative and exciting companies I've worked for - Anonymous employee Bohemia Interactive Simulations Employee Review

5.0
22 Mar 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some really smart people doing some very cool stuff. The simulation training software that we provide is making military training far cheaper and much safer, while at the same time enabling simulating situations that would be impossible to realise in a non-virtual world. The company is refreshingly free of politics.

Cons

Growth is always difficult - sometimes managers get promoted above their capability - sometimes cash can be tight - sometimes a big customer means you have to suddenly adjust plans. I think that senior management does a good job of managing this growth and the fluid aspects of our work.

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5.0
9 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great place to work. Gain a lot of knowledge. There is a lot of teamwork and this is a great work environment.

Cons

There are no cons when it comes to working at Bohemia Interactive Simulations.

3.0
18 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

During the transition period between one owner to another, it was easy to just work and be left alone. That ended in 2023 with the finalization of the acquisition.

Cons

What was once the story of the team and its talent has become a story of the management team and their brilliant and brutal axe use to churn the attrition chum pot. Mixed messages from the moment the new team took over. Expand the offices but cut staff. Created a bizarre bonus structure that allowed people to "nominate" each other for minor "award bonuses" which from the jump felt like kindergarden style sniping games. Cringe restrictions on the touted "exciting new bonus opportunities" even limited the number of dollars spent and required a lot of sucking up and "free extra work and donations of your invention" to get anywhere. As soon as the company was acquired, the newly appointed director/CEO/President Rahul Thakkar (formerly at Boeing and worked in safety, how laughable, he continues to be named on patents and works from his lavish Loudoun county VA home but requires everyone else to RTO at least part-time) -- the self-proclaimed "face of Shrek" who "won an Oscar" for innovating what is perhaps the least creative thing, production-focused micromanagement software for DreamWorks in the 1990s - brought out the acquire-reduce katana to slice up non-Czech offices, previously acquired under other management, close offices in Asia, and bungle the sales team causing a net negative within the first 12 months. Within 18 months, the US office had imploded by 50%, with senior level leadership of a formerly independent R&D focused office among first to go, I among them. Now under BAE they are rebranding and smooshing the company together with a zombie acquisition from a previous cycle to create BAE OneArc. Presumably OneArc refers to the "sight of the sunrise over planet Earth when orbiting in space" which really captures the gaming and warsim subculture of the company, dontchathink?

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