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This company, while it offers a job, it's not a decent job, if you care to advance into other fields, and mostly just gives you experience with customer service, minor bookkeeping & clerical work, cleaning, money handling, some food & drink service, and only the barest of technical work. Their facilities are fairly clean, but equipment is either worn out or past its due. Machines required to work the register, and make transactions are somewhat faulty, and the pumps themselves can be very faulty at times. The carwash, vacuums, and air pump are old, worn out, and suffer from public abuse. 
As a company, it's run as cheaply as possible to garner profit, often neglecting things that need repair, and as the company has its employees sign agreement contracts stating no holiday pay, no paid vacations, no paid sick days, etcetera... and the fact that almost no employees get raises, and even store managers only get paid a couple dollars more than the low staff, they save money. 
I don't suggest working for them, unless you're desperate for work. They don't tend to hire decent workers on average, many of whom are either corrupt, immature, or otherwise unreliable, and with the stresses, including dealing with disgruntled or angry customers, drama, and the low pay without actual benefits, the turn over rate is relatively high. 
The store management itself isn't too bad, and they often try hard at their jobs, but the company management/ owners have various issues that are suspect, but as a lowly worker there you may find yourself rather ignorant and relying on rumors of things to come often. 
It does run itself a bit laid back at times, and management isn't always looking over your shoulder, except for the store cameras, which are needed. 
The stores often are either understaffed or skeleton crewed, as well. 
Note: this is from my perspective, and while much of it is obviously valid, I don't have all the information needed to place a full report upon the company as a whole, so I may be somewhat biased, ignorant, & or have misunderstood certain things, which I apologize for. 
Thank You for the survey.

One giant dog and pony show. They'll sell you on the idea that they're different than any other factory, but after a few months you'll realize it's no different than where you came from. Empty promises. Prepare to be a number to your management team. They'll demand more than you should ever be expected to give. And just when you think it's getting better, they'll red tape processes that were improving and up the tack time so you feel like your spinning your wheels. Since day one, they've crushed their teams with an increasing amount of pressure. They've neglected their experienced workers and their suggestions. They recently lost the trust of their assemblers and pushed them into the arms of a union. This facility is so poorly managed, just take a brief look at their production schedule and you'll learn all you need to know in a minute. Don't let me get started on the culture there. 

Loved Saab's products and working with the Engineers and Business Development people the 1st 6 months. Things quickly went downhill.  Supply Chain constantly loses people due to heavy workload and inept management. Those that are left behind are the enforcers.  As soon as you get in the groove with one project, you get yanked onto another project.  Roles and responsibilities are not clearly delineated, and even if they were there are too many new employees to really get it sorted out.  You are constantly asked to travel, which might be ok, if you had anyone to back you up and help with your workload while you on travel.  It was nothing to fly into town, attend all day meetings, and then end up working half the night from your hotel room.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The PTO package is decent, although it was better before the union contract.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management constantly pushing for impossible timelines, while refusing to learn from their previous mistakes or plan for literally anything.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The environment could best be described as depressing and frustrating. The culture is the same as any factory. There is the hatred between work areas and shifts, and management is rife with favoritism. There is very few people who actually have relevant experience, so it is often the blind leading the blind.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Frustrating. You spend your day using poorly written work instructions and poor quality tools (once you can find them), to try and complete your assigned jobs.

Not a bad gig if you are under the right contract.  This is easy money, you pick up mail from the main post office in Austin. load your truck and be off the dock by assigned time. Deliver to assigned cities by the time agreed upon when contract details were set(morning/evening runs), and on the return trip pick up from each city and return mail back to  the Austin plant.  Hardest part of the job are the morning hours, each route varies but you can be leaving the dock anywhere from 12am-5am everyday(6 day work week off days vary depending on staff). The best part its split shift so even though you have to wake up early you're done with your morning before most people even get up and most routes can start back anywhere from 3pm-5pm so you have nice little break in between runs.

SAAB Defense and Security (SDAS) has been growing for over Three years now and compared to three years ago this company has made some big strides. Great Benefits, Good Pay, Flexible work schedule and much more.  SDAS offers plenty of opportunities to improve your education not only by allowing you to attend college while you work but also allow you to flex your work schedule around your school life, in addition to allowing you to adjust your schedule around your family needs.  Working at SDAS from almost the beginning, has really shown me what people with influences from surrounding companies can accomplish, I am proud to say that I work for SAAB Defense and Security!  You will to if you get the opportunity to work for this great company.

Technical environment with applications to Defense industry.  Need strong background in Military to fit in with products and services produced. Senior management under great pressure to be successful which translates back to mid level and lower employee levels. Success depended on economy of military budgets. Products they sell very expensive compared to rest of industry. Working with very professional and skilled people. Will travel often in CONUS and OCONUS. Some weeks will work very long hours. Will learn new process and technologies. Great Training.

Leadership is essentially an ineffective good old-boys clique. Disregard for regulations, processes, and procedures to their benefit--like its 1950! If you're outside this network you'll be the scapegoat for their ineptness. Proof-point: senior leader, to demonstrate they're bada**, openly brags about having made employees cry. Seems like discussions of inclusion, diversity, respect are just to check the box.
If you're competent, professional, conscientious, want a rewarding career in a positive environment--then move on.  Many have joined the organization only to soon depart.  While there're many good people to work beside, the leadership is unlikely to change.

Most of my work was done in Solidworks and Draftsight, which enhanced my knowledge of the programs and strengthened my understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.  The employees were friendly and there was a relaxed air to the environment, despite the fact that much work was accomplished every day.  Some managers were difficult to get ahold of, as they were constantly busy and in meetings.  Not having full understandings of certain tasks and being unable to get ahold of certain individuals was the most difficult part of my time at Saab.  However, as there was a surplus of work to do, there were always backup tasks to keep me going.

Would Avoid working here, Environment is toxic with, favoritism and group clicks. If someone makes an accusation just leave even if you have proof it will be ignored. Management and quality seem to think they know everything even if you can prove them wrong. Pay is a downward spiral. Trying to get days off is like finding a needle in a haystack. There is absolutely no ownership when management or workers make mistakes. There isn't much good to say about this job except that your get to work on a fighter jet. They give no appreciation to hard workers.

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