Leonardo reviews

No job rotation and career development opportunities are scarce. I personally came from another manufacturing environment; however, I did not have a great knowledge of Aviation. It would have been nice to have some type of orientation program that introduced an employee to the company and aviation/aerospace in general. Management takes forever to do anything because HR presence is non-existent & approval form our Italian brothers & sisters is always required.. Get your money when you are hired, because raises are non-existent. If you are a top performer, you may receive 3% per year. According to HR, the average raise for the company was 2% last year but I know many who received less. There is no merit based bonus structure. Poor work/life balance as there is no "work from home" option and the plant in Philadelphia has closed 1 time for a half day during my 4 years. Any employee who is not a Senior Manager or above has to clock in/out; even if they are salaried. No flexibility in doing 9 hours Mon-Thurs & leaving early on Friday.

The pay for engineers is terrible. Especially given the specialism and amount of knowledge required. Loyalty is not rewarded and they continually hire people with inappropriate backgrounds on 5k more than experienced engineers. It's hard to swallow. The HR department is running the company which is extremely unusual. There used to be a performance related pay review but this is now a flat 2% raise overall which is disgraceful given the company's financials. The lack of PPR means that there is an awful lot of "deadwood" in the company coasting along on other peoples work.