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Digitalglobe has great benefits and work/life balance compared to most companies.  Very generous vacation package, freedom to create your own schedule, and many free lunches, dinners, and happy hours (depending on department).

Unfortunately,  That's where it ends.  Most of the negative reviews on here are right.  If your in production you will do the same boring, monotonous work over and over again. You will NOT be doing remote sensing or analysis of any kind. The software and tools are propitiatory and are not good enough to get the amount of work done that's needed.  You will have an average of 1 hour long meeting per week making it difficult to get anything done.  Nearly all these meetings could've been summed up in an email!

One hand doesn't know what the other's doing.  You will constantly told to drop everything you are doing in order to get this "very important" project done done immediately. Then the day next day you'll be told to stand down after you wasted all that time working on it.  

Many people are hungry to move up the ladder, and will do anything to do so.  They will push their work on you, and take credit for it, or stab you in the back when it's wrong.  Unless you play the "game" you will not get promoted.  There is a lot of nepotism as well.  There's many examples of individuals coming in with no experience that get management or lead positions that are friends with people of power.  Pay is also uneven.  You'll have one Production Coordinator with 5 years experience making 46,000/yr and another with 1 year experience making 50,000/yr.

The CEO and VP's are practically worthless as well.  They know nothing about the business, and are a bunch Ivy League politician types in suits talking about "Change" and "Purpose, Vision, and Values". They are constantly reorganizing and cutting working staff and going "Lean".  But, for some reason they're always hiring new VP's that make upwards of half million dollars per year that do who knows what.

My Manager and my Site Lead were really good guys, knew their stuff and I was honored to work with them. They earned my respect and my appreciation for their leadership. Benefits were great and are hard to beat! There are employment opportunities irregularly company-wide & sometimes in your own department. There are yearly pay increases if you do a good job.
Culture isn’t for everyone & Maxar makes their politics known, which is a bummer for the Maxar employees, who are many, that don't agree with the political alignment of the leadership personnel from the C-Suite. Beyond that, Maxar is pretty great. They will often take care and treat their employees quite well and go above and beyond, which can usually outweigh any negative views that an employee might develop perchance during their time at Maxar. 
In the end though, I was let go from Maxar because of my refusal to be vaccinated due to my religious beliefs. Out of respect for my peers and my bosses, I will not go into further details, as I have very strong opinions concerning this issue, and am still disheartened and upset about the matter and have no desire to say something that I would later regret. For anyone reading this review, feel free to glimmer whatever you can concerning this key issue. All I can say is, I wish Maxar hadn’t done me and other employees company-wide wrong in regard to the COVID immunization dilemma that many of us had to face head-on last month and at the end of last year. It is for the COVID issue why I must rate "Management" as 3 out of 5. In my eyes though, my Site Lead, Manager, and his two bosses were 5 out of 5-star rating, but they were not the upper-management personnel who had decided to let me and other Maxar employees and contractors go due to our refusal to get jabbed. It is also why I must rate the Job Culture a 3 out of 5-star. And therefore the Overall Job rating as a 3 out of 5-star rating. 


The first two years I worked here, the company was great. Excellent manager, trusting environment, team setting. I would have given the company 4 stars at that time. 

After two years, a coworker, with no managerial training or experience, was prematurely promoted to our team's new manager, as was another manager promoted to team director. Both were distrusting, emotionally unbalanced, and paranoid. Huge promotional mistakes. Distrust abounds here; it's common at this company that if a manager doesn't physically see you working, they just assume you weren't working. One week I would be praised for my work ethic, and the next week, without changing a thing, I would be reprimanded for poor performance. Depending on the mood of my manager, I was either fantastic or failing; it didn't matter what the metrics showed. There was just no winning. 

The stress became too much. I was constantly sick due to it and I later resigned. 

Be warned: This place is a craps shoot. Depending on your manager(s), you'll either have a great experience, or this will be the job from Helle. Or, you'll get one of the bipolar managers, like mine, and have a great experience from Helle.

First, DG has great benefits and the work/life balance for most people is better than most companies. Salaries are probably comparable too. The people I worked with were generally great but there are lots of people trying to work their way up as quickly as possible that need everything ASAP and all projects are MISSION CRITICAL even if it's a complete waste of time!!!

The actual work was brain draining. Lots of tedious work capitalized with monotony. You'd think that this technology would present interesting work but that was not the case for lots of people. There seem to be more VPs everyday and no one knows what they do. The CEO is alright but he talks like a typical political figure and really doesn't know much about the geospatial industry. Lots of money wasted on the new building. The low level workforce needs more support but there are no resources for them because spending goes towards other things so basically if it's not broke but can be vastly improved, nothing will be done. Too many meetings that are not beneficial. Working with the government regulations on people's security clearances also seemed like a pain and waste of time/money for the company.

Since merging with Geoeye, DigitalGlobe has been focusing on cutting costs and firming product offerings. Unfortunately this has stagnated internal growth and advancement, in favor of demonstrating gains to investors.
The senior management team is focusing on growing new lines of business without consulting their experienced labor force, resulting in wasted efforts and and constant internal arguments.
A great deal of time is spent developing internal culture at the corporate level, however these values are soon discarded at the individual level. Employee ratings are designed to marginalize above average performance. Lastly, the company prefers to re-title employees over adjusting compensation based on duties; relevant experience will rarely translate into competitive pay.

Overall this company is driven by senior management ego, but takes the time to go through the motions of thoughtful management then ignores all thought at its first convenience.

This company surprises me every day with something new - whether it is a new product I didn't know about, or entire teams devoted to developer support.   Executive level management is a phone call or text away to every employee.  This company makes their employees feel like owners, and takes pride in their talent retention.  Plus the flexibility (employees get FTO instead of PTO) and the stay-at-home support for COVID-19 is a huge testament to how Maxar cares for their employees.  I hear complaints from many of my engineering friends about the issues they experience with work/life balance, benefits, and flexibility - things I no longer need to concern myself while working with this company.  

This is a financially strong company with great customers and a fantastic revenue stream.  I'm proud to call this company home.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Hands on a plethora of diverse and interesting technologies.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The planet fluctuates and therefore is not consistent. As a DSOE it will take two years to get their feet under them and be productive. The customer is never told "No".  Environmental change is so rapid that accurate documentation is a a full time job for hte technical writes that do not exist. If you love stress this place is great!  

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
environmental flux, If you enjoy disc golf you will love it here.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Login and see what plans you made previously go out the window. Sit down, shut up and deal with what comes. This is not a complaint coming from the boring financial industry.

Great Company with lots of extremely intelligent people working on cool technology that will eventually end up in space.  This ia a smaller, scrappy commercial supplier of satellites, that still managed to get >33% of the commercial market away from giants like Lockheed, Boing and Airbus.  The entire satellite industry is adapting to disruptive new entrants into the field as well as a desire from customers to more frequently update technology in space.  This has led the entire industry to go from 20-25 Sats a year down to 4-8. This has led to impacts to capital, yearly raises, bonuses, training and certainly to stock options and ESPPs.  They have a lot of smart people that will help them pivot into a new and more profitable direction and should be back on top shortly

As a contractor, I did have a different perspective working at DigitalGlobe. I will say, it was certainly interesting working for a company that managed a fleet of satellites. These satellites, were used to take pictures of the Earth. If one goes to Google Maps, and use Satellite view, chances are that photo came from DigitalGlobe.

Over the pat 11 years, since I left, DigitalGlobe merged with another satellite imagery provider and is a different company than the one I worked for.

I can say, based upon my experience, the culture was very supportive, communication was done well from top to bottom. They certainly kept their computer technology up to date. Co-workers were very intelligent, but very approachable. Very team oriented. Management truly had an open door policy and listened very well.

The company sent me a box full of Maxar Merch within my first month. Got a water bottle, mug, mug warmer, a mouse pad, and a couple of stickers. It's pretty neat knowing your company appreciates you and gives you cool stuff to show it off. Additionally, the new employees were taken out for a company lunch. Again, just showing that initial investment and appreciation is really nice.
I work 12 hour shifts, so the hardest part is waking up early for them. My management is at a different site, so I have a lot of leniency and not direct oversight all the time, which is nice not having someone constantly over your shoulder.
Workplace is great, and the people I work with, are really great too. 
And I think the best part about my job is knowing that our work is impactful, meaningful and that we are helping our customers make the world a better place.

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