GDC Technics Reviews

2.6

27% would recommend to a friend

(85 total reviews)

Charles Celli

26% approve of CEO

20% positive business outlook

GDC Technics has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 85 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The GDC Technics employee rating is 28% below average for employers within the Aerospace and defence industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
16 Nov 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Every single one of the team in the UK Interesting work Great working atmosphere Decent offices Good management team (UK office)

Cons

The toxicity of the middle and upper management of Fort Worth, Texas - Absolute waste of space. They don't have a clue what they're doing. They blunder from one disaster to another. Every program loses money and they've been making the same mistakes for years with no lessons learnt. If only they could see the issues that need addressing within the whole organisation, instead of stabbing each other in the back as part of the corporate ladder climbing... Finger pointing and blame culture - Watch your backs. Team USA will always blame someone else for their constant failures, normally the UK engineers. If only you had tried to work with the UK instead of against us, you might actually have been a success. You'll (note correct spelling) miss us now you've decided to sack us all and close the UK office. Obviously the folly of making your best enginers redundant will come back to bite you once you need us to get you out the latest foul up you've created. Nobody to blame but yourselves. Cowardly work culture - Since we received our notice that the UK office was to close, there wasn't a single word from anyone at Fort Worth to the employees who were to lose their jobs. Not one word. We tried to work with you to complete the VIP programs and to build a working relationship, but ultimately, the UK engineers have been discarded once our apparent usefullness has ended.

1.0
13 Nov 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Generous salary and holiday package (at least in the UK). Opportunity to work on some interesting projects.

Cons

The work culture is rotten at its core focusing on deadlines rather than quality. Many times we were put under pressure to produce drawings in a "quick and dirty" (Their words) manner. If the customers really knew how their "VIP" planes were really made, they might think twice before going for GDC Technics. Their handling of data is shameful and the communication between engineers from the US to the UK was shambolic. We would design something, that design would then be approved and released, only to really months/years later that this is not the way it was assembled on the aircraft. Ensued months of crunching where we had to revisit a majority of the drawings to bring them in line with what was installed on the Aircraft. During that crunching period, some of us worked relentlessly (sometimes doing 15+hrs a day) to meet the stupid deadlines set by the incompetent planning team. "your effort will be noticed" they said, "we are one big family and the future will be great" they promised... Meanwhile, behind the scenes, they were already planning to shut the UK operation down as early as the beginning of 2020. I worked for this company for 5 years, 50% of the time we didn't get paid on time. Now after all the efforts and sacrifices that we put into this company (that in the end really benefited the top brass) I feel used and discarded. The only things that kept me working there was the belief that the US could learn from their mistakes from one project to another (they didn't) and the amazing team of UK engineers I had the honour and pleasure to work for/with. I'll miss you guys. I won't miss you GDC Technics. You are a joke of a company.

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