You are expected to show gratitude for 2.4% yearly salary increases (well below inflation)
Work will interfere with your personal life "but please call the EAP line or call the Type A-personality mental health ambassadors who are also your seniors/superiors"
Overtime is looked down upon and requires pre approval by your manager's boss
Constantly understaffed. Unless you're a key engineer or in management, you are an expendable afterthought
No yearly bonuses for non-management. Ad-hoc bonuses happen rarely.
Non-existent employment retention efforts (see 2.4% above)
When colleagues leave and they can't hire replacements, the people remaining will absorb workloads but not increased remuneration nor acting levels
Their stat of "52% of employees are tenured over 10 years" is because most employees are engineering types that would be lifers anywhere (51% of employees are in engineering) -see GD mission systems canada site, under section "Life at GD"
Promotion policy: HR is not your friend
Compensation policy: they probe local industry averages, seek to ensure internal equality, seek to reward unique skills, and a few other pleasantries that sound great on paper but are lip service
I was once excited to start working at GD, but you are expected to consider the "privilege" of working there to be a substantial part of your remuneration (See 2.4%)
