QinetiQ Employee Reviews

I started work as a n engineer on a Monday. I showed up and did everything they wanted. I was reading into the job when I got called out of the office and marched off site. Disgraceful behavior. I have never experienced anything like it in 30 years. Utterly appalled. They didn’t even pay me for my time.

Pros

None

Cons

Everything

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Insights into QinetiQ

Based on 28 survey responses

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Ability to meet personal goals
Time and location flexibility

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Fantastic company

Associate Software Engineer (Current Employee) - Portsmouth - 24 January 2023

I've worked for qinetiq for two years now and have only had positive experiences. Mostly remote work which is fantastic! The work is interesting and the people you work with are all intelligent and easy to deal with (may vary team to team)

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Good place to work

Supply Chain Manager (Current Employee) - Farnborough, Hampshire - 9 January 2023

Good level of flexibility in working hours and variety within the work itself, good culture at the lower levels. This is not reflected at the senior levels.

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Simply awful

A title that doesn't reflect my pay (Current Employee) - Boscombe Down - 13 December 2022

This place is a joke, a retirement home for managers that couldn't find a proper job. Totally out of their depth. The CEO needs to get to grips with the inept managers. Too many broken promises of golden years ahead.

Pros

Fine if you don't want to work

Cons

Management that don't have a clue, who hires these people?

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Friendly teamwork

Technician (Current Employee) - Ashford - 6 November 2022

Lots of new starters, friendly welcoming team, facilities/canteen good, opportunity's available if you want it, good location, looking to expand......

Pros

Good atmosphere

Cons

Currently need more space but it is being looked into

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Great technology and people, sometimes a bit backwards!

Senior Product Owner - Cyber and Intelligence (Former Employee) - Farnborough - 19 August 2022

Stuck in the 1990’s, a big oil tanker of a company trying to compete with more agile companies. The people and tech are great and for this alone it’s worth working at QinetiQ.

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Great people but poor cultures

Trials manager (Former Employee) - Shoeburyness - 3 August 2022

I worked at QQ for over 10 years, rapidly progressing to a management position which is where I got stuck.Unfortunately, if you are good at your job, you end up being passed over for promotion as they struggle with replacing staff due to the uniqueness of the work and the structure of the business.

Pros

QQ work in a huge variety of domains

Cons

Poor culture and behaviours by some senior management, can be stressful, Pay is below that of comparable industry.

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Way too much work site too big

Maintenance Electrician/Multi-skilled Mechanical (Former Employee) - Farnborough - 11 July 2022

This is probably one of the worst companys I have ever experienced I don't know where to even begin, bullying management and being treated like a kid is an understatement, the work load is really put on you and the other guys that work they basically just show up for appearance money and get away with doing nothing.

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Best place I’ve worked

Project Manager (Current Employee) - Malvern, Worcestershire - 18 June 2022

QinetiQ is a fantastic place to work. It truly has the best people to work with and the Company is massive on employee wellbeing. Lots of varied work to do.

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Frustrating place to work

Multi Skilled Building Services Engineering Technician (Former Employee) - Pendine - 18 May 2022

Management were micro managing half the workforce but leaving the other half get away with whatever they tried (some awful things) which dropped moral massively. Career progression was not a thing, I spent 7years working here and showed I was capable of more but was never given the opportunity. I left the company for a better paid and more technical role and within 12months, this company has seen my potential and I have been promoted.QinetiQ is a very frustrating place to work.

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A pale shadow of its former self

Chargehand/Supervisor (Former Employee) - Boscombe Down - 31 March 2022

I did 29 years + with QQ and its ancestor organisations, DERA, DTEO and MoD (PE). Once upon a time it was a great place to work covering military aircraft equipment trials and support. The work force had a real family feel to it. All that has now gone with only a handful of engineering technicians remaining at the establishment that was so much part of my life. Pictures I've seen recently show empty hangars and buildings devoid of aircraft, helicopters and people.

Pros

None, nobody left

Cons

No work

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Only toilet duck can save us now!

Engineer (Former Employee) - Portsmouth, Hampshire - 11 March 2022

It's been a while since I worked at QQ but looking back with greater experience I can see it for what it is, a box-standard badly run British business living in the past. Like most companies it suffers from cliques hogging all the opportunities, in this case it's the Oxbridge mob giving preferential treatment to their own kind - it's not a meritocracy. Management run the place like something out the seventies which is reflected in the quality of the output. They do manage to hire some good people but they soon figure out there's no future for them unless they have the right friends or are prepared to wait ten years for the simplest promotion, so they disappear quite quickly leaving only the management's golden boys and the dregs. Not very dynamic and not very diverse.

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Good team players all

Night Installation Manager (Former Employee) - Holborn Station (LUL) - 12 November 2021

Everyone set out to make the work succeed, team work and aptly proactive. Nightly and weekly reports were promptly reviewed, discussed and resolved.Save for slight delay on delivery of certain materials that were not locally sourced, planning and project execution was almost flawless. Sub-contractor companies on the project were not so forthcoming initially but good conflict resolve approach over rode the setback.

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Toxic

Employee (Current Employee) - Amesbury - 5 November 2021

Bad place to work, toxic . Senior Management and directors are mainly ex Military and treat everyone as if they are serving, if anyone in family is critically ill you get told to “man up” no flexibility what so ever and often here management talking about bullying individuals so they will quit.

Pros

Colleagues

Cons

Unpaid work

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Good when things are going well but not so much after projects end.

Engineering Technician (Former Employee) - Farnborough GU14 - 28 September 2021

QinetiQ is a very interesting place to work. While I worked there for 18 years I was lucky enough to work on a variety interesting projects involving Trident submarine, Type 42 frigate and during my final years there, in particular the ESA BepiColombo Project space probe to Mercury.

Pros

Interesting working with specialists in some very unique technical areas, I learnt a lot there during my tenure.

Cons

Low pay, Inept management culture

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Low pay company obsessed with compliance

Engineer (Former Employee) - UK - 13 August 2021

Wages are lower than average and almost too low to live by (and I'm an Engineering graduate) . They give a profit share as a % of salary which works out at next to nothing.Being obsessed with process rather than output, they invest a lot on training. The form filling is endless, it seems they have forms for almost task and often the form filling takes longer to complete.

Pros

Good training

Cons

Can't live off the wages

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Interesting work with good benefits

Software Engineer (Current Employee) - Portsmouth - 11 July 2021

A good employer with a variety of fields and opportunities to develop one's career. Good pension contributions, and managers look out for signs of stress and care about their staff.

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A good company in which to work.

Account Director (Former Employee) - Farnborough - 30 March 2021

The Company gave me plenty of independence, responsibility and freedom to develop my part of the business. I was working remotely from the HQ in Farnborough, and there was some 'out of sight, out of mind' from the centre. There was good camaraderie and some extremely sharp minds in the business, developing new technologies.

Pros

Subsidised lunches, well led and kept informed

Cons

Some retention of its civil service heritage, which could slow business decisions.

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Most enjoyable job I’ve had.

Range worker (Former Employee) - South East - 25 February 2021

Would recommend, for someone motivated, wanting to learn, and who values a community vibe. I was never under pressure and working hours were ideal

Pros

A great environment to Work in.

Cons

None

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Chilled out work environment, amazing staff.

Storeman (Former Employee) - Ashford, Kent - 1 December 2020

I absolutely loved working here, everyone was warm and welcoming and unfortunately I lost my job to Covid-19 but hopefully in the future I can see my back working. I would love to to return.

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