Ambitious company, very supportive and caring culture - Anonymous employee Critical Software Employee Review

5.0
19 Dec 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company has a healthy culture of striving for continual improvement that really encourages talent growth and ideas from across the business. The company has an excellent understanding of the fact that staff wellbeing and a positive company culture are crucial in engendering loyalty and high-performance. Best of all, senior management at all levels really welcome input from individuals from across the business, with mechanisms in place to both listen to and act on contributions.

Cons

The breadth of the company offer is both a strength and a challenge, in that it requires some mental dexterity to understand in depth all of the areas that the company develops technologies and solutions for.

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5.0
24 Dec 2021
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Pros

Great environment, projects that make a difference to the world (no call centre crappy software being developed here): trains, planes, aerospace, space, banking, smart meters, etc.. Parts of Exomars SW were made here. Same for Solar Orbiter and 20+ space missions. This is about changing the world, for the better, while staying in Portugal (or UK, or Germany, or anywhere that suits you - remote is the new norm). Human resources are valued. Several process improvement initiatives are NOT related to the core technical standards and/or technologies but to People and sustainability (Investors in People, B-Corps). One of the few CMMI-L5 companies in the world (~1000), which rates the capability maturity level of the organization.

Cons

Got to know what is involved in working for safety-critical projects and domains. Not a company developing pretty much simple web software. Coding is only one of the many tasks to be performed before release. If you don't care about quality (doing things right, processes and doing the right thing and your business is the salary at the end of the month), go somewhere else.

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Critical Software Response
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Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us. We work across a range of the most demanding industries, all with the goal of making the world a safer and better place. We're always ready to face the toughest of challenges, but it's important that we can enjoy the experience at the same time!
2.0
30 May 2026
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Pros

Good culture, nice snacks, friendly colleagues

Cons

Slow career progression High performers are not sufficiently recognized or developed Limited differentiation between average and exceptional performance employees

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