How is management perceived at BlueHalo?

They have good management and culture

Annual raises have not kept up with inflation in the 2 years I have been with them. There are no bonuses and there are not profit-sharing incentives.

Employee benefits, events, and remote work

The pay, management, project management, bh hires a bunch of incompetent employees and managers. Most of my team already quit and the few that are left don’t have any managers because they quit. They are cheap with raises and promotions. BlueHalo is too busy acquiring multiple companies but not managing them properly. BH does not promote employees based on performance but instead based on favoritism. This place is very toxic

I have worked in many TA positions with different companies through several acquisitions finally landing with BlueHalo. Each position I held was a little more difficult than the last coupled with a severe lack of training and tools. However, once BlueHalo took over, I was moved again to a position I really love and I was given proper training and control/ the ability to own my work completely. There is a great deal of trust and independence that is given from management, but at the same time they are always ready to extend a hand should you require additional training or support. I really love the HR team and the willingness of the company to be as accommodating as possible when dealing with extenuating circumstances.

Because of the most recent acquisition, the overall feel of things is a little bit messy and chaotic. I will say that with BlueHalo, upper management is listening to employee opinions and taking them into account when finalizing processes and standard practices.

The company recently changed ownership and management, so now the money shortages might be less of an issue.

Recent management changes with the purchase are not going well so far. Local top management quit and fled after the purchase. Remaining top management is now preoccupied fitting in with the new owners so no-one is running local operations. The new owners are a big company so we have new security and procedures to deal with, but local operations and benefits are not being integrated into parent company for at-least a year, so any potential improvements are delayed. The local managers are not professional and there is a lot of political fighting among departments. The best way for a manager to look good here is to try to make other departments fail at their tasks. Project managers are ineffective. Many critical projects are late and understaffed while other people sit idle looking for work.

Good pay, benefits, and interesting contracts

You get pretty disconnected from management since you're working with contractors.

Good Pay, Good Work, Mostly good program management

It’s still a company, hr can be slow.

The company recently changed ownership and management, so now the money shortages might be less of an issue.

Recent management changes with the purchase are not going well so far. Local top management quit and fled after the purchase. Remaining top management is now preoccupied fitting in with the new owners so no-one is running local operations. The new owners are a big company so we have new security and procedures to deal with, but local operations and benefits are not being integrated into parent company for at-least a year, so any potential improvements are delayed. The local managers are not professional and there is a lot of political fighting among departments. The best way for a manager to look good here is to try to make other departments fail at their tasks. Project managers are ineffective. Many critical projects are late and understaffed while other people sit idle looking for work.

None that I can think of

The salary is not competitive with industry standards. They seem to lowball candidates, which is never a sign of a good company. Management is more concerned with capturing new business than they are about taking care of their current employees. Management is also unprofessional. They blatantly brag that war is good for business. While everyone knows that ongoing conflicts are good for the pocketbooks of defense contractors, considering the fact that people are dying in said armed conflicts, they could show a little more tact. There are better companies out there that don’t talk out of both sides of their mouth re being an employee centric company. Their merger has left employee benefits and HR in disarray and raises are few and far between. I would not recommend this company to others.

- They won't LeetCode you. Because they don't know how. - Their checks clear (for now at least) - You don't have to work if you're buddies with the right people. - You'll learn (or relearn) how to count to 80 when you fill out your timesheet every two weeks. - The company is a Frankenstein of at least 20 different entities now, so YMMV from this post.

- If you're any kind of software developer, you'll have two choices. Work as a contractor on govtech, where you'll quickly then slowly watch your career wash away through the terrible practices this company perpetuates. Or two, you'll work in R&D, where you'll learn to swipe open source software and wonder why it does not work with the modified inputs. - They have every bad manager archetype you can think of. The liar, the micromanager, the backstabber, the technical program manager than doesn't know what version control is, the yeller, the stealer of ideas, the HR violation, the spineless one, you name it, they have it there. - The "culture" is extremely siloed, sectioned off like an academic prison ward, and non-communicative even amongst those who apparently work together. - Skill issues galore. They can't get their "Deep Learning" platform running because not enough people there know how to use Linux. - They don't write anything down, which is incredible given how writing-intensive research and software can be. - They love a slide show so that managers can see that work needs to be done and never have to go into any depth on how it will actually happen.

pay & benefits to a degree, culture is good but only based on individual managers.

too many acquisitions too quickly very top heavy now, cliquish, and flaky based on some management teams. C suite gives lip service as a form of communication, but doesn't follow through, doesn't double check, doesn't care. promotions occur to whomever is the best looking, friends with the promoter, or the newest shiny penny who can do no wrong. Pick and choose who they hold to policy and who they look the other way. pile more work on worker bees while management have off-site meetings in Hawaii, the caribbean, or fancy u.s. spa's then flow down budgetary concerns???