General Dynamics Information Technology reviews

Leadership does not have your back. Be sure to maintain your own relationship with the client, if your leadership is tighter than you, rethink your job/role. To survive get on your leadership's page, do not innovate, find out what they want and tell it to them. Have resume ready, keep other jobs inside GDIT and outside very warm. Employee Complaint program does not have your interests at heart; I filed 3 with substantial documentation to prove point, all sided with leadership. White Male, do not expect promotions unless you have multimillion $ contracts at the ready to book. Do not slip on schedule, if you have a legit reason, bury it and blame someone else. Employee retention/mobility is a sham, it is 99% dependent on the networking you have done on your own. If you enter the EM program, be ready to self relocate and take a pay cut by default.

The sheer size of the corporation means you will be a small cog in a large operation. Coupled with working from home, this means you will be invisible to management. Everything is driven by project management. Yours and your team's success will hinge upon how skillfully your leads can navigate through scheduling, earned value reporting, and progress reporting. If a task is underestimated or falls behind schedule, you will be expected to work as many additional hours as it takes to get it caught up. And coupled with the invisibility brought on from working remotely, you will be blamed for any failure to meet schedule. There are strict limits on how much vacation can be carried over. If you work there long enough to accumulate, say, over 5 weeks of vacation, any days beyond that will be subject to a "use it or lose it" policy. For the most part, people are friendly and easy to work with, however there exists a culture of bullying within the system architecture specialists. It was there 20 years ago and it sadly still exists.